Yes your probably correct on the B&C The ones I had apart were from the university pub and I think they've been frankenstiened
I think it was a lateral move> I fell into them through a friend of a friend, the deal came up and I couldn't pass, 4 mackie stacks SWA1801's under SA1232's 9 months old with 1 summer of indoor use on them Extremely nice price.
basically it works, my market for them is res/pubs doing covers for cougars on fri or sat night I can roll in 2 stacks a board effects/ snake/ box 4 powered wedges(more mackies, gross I know but the price was right) and have that lit up and ready to go in a half hour of busywork, It all looks somewhat professional, as compared to the other bands running rag tag peavey yamaha EV boves making big piles of gak in front of the stage and burning up 2 or 3 4-6 up tables for the venue owner. Its the plug and play that has me hooked. Its not big money but its steady.
Would I have bought the rig retail? No probably not, I'd likely be still running the yorkville passive bottoms and probably yorkville powered tops, Nx750P most likely or possibly JBL but again being in Canada the yorkies are a better price point. The mackies are what they are , get the job done and have a decently clean look about them, nothing spectacular but kept within their limitations I can see getting 3-5 years out of them and probably recouping 80% of what I have invested in them .My rave nights are over so I doubt running a bit of kick keys and bass in 3000 sq ft 350 capacity pubs will do them in. Theres actually one band running a single 1501 and a pair of SRM450's on sticks every now and again in the same venues but theyre running the stage wayyy hotter (half stacks vs 112 combos) and basically the sub is directly connected to the kick mic (bass player has 2 4x10's compared to 210 sidewashed at drummer
so many ways to skin a cat...