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Need Advice for Sound Setup for New Gym!
Dean Illguth:
Hey guys. We've just built our own strength and conditioning gym and want to setup the sound system for it. Looking for some handy advice thanks.
The room is pretty well square. 400sqm. 5m ceilings. Front side and backwall are solid concrete tilt panels. Other side panel is just gyprock. There is a solid steel square structural pole in the middle of the room off to one side that we could mount the speakers if thats the best place for them. Was thinking about getting 2 or 3 and mounting them at the top, angled downwards in diff directions.
We hold powerlifting comps so I would like them to pump if thats not too much to ask.
Budget 2-3k
The legends at the AVSForum recommended a PA style speaker like the Behringer B215XLs.
Cheers.
Mac Kerr:
--- Quote from: inkarnate on April 29, 2021, 08:30:02 PM ---Hey guys. We've just built our own strength and conditioning gym and want to setup the sound system for it. Looking for some handy advice thanks.
Cheers.
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Chris Grimshaw:
--- Quote from: Dean Illguth on April 29, 2021, 08:30:02 PM ---
The legends at the AVSForum recommended a PA style speaker like the Behringer B215XLs.
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Those speakers are okay-ish for home theatre, but a budget-end 15"/1" box isn't a great recommendation. Poor midrange (crossover is too high for even sound across the coverage area), limited bass.
Whatever you buy, make sure it's installed by a professional with all the correct certification. If one of those speakers falls off the wall because an amateur (no matter how "handy" they think they are) has installed it, there'll only be a smoking crater left once the lawyers are finished.
With that out the way, I'd be looking at 2-4x 18" subwoofers, and a couple of 12" tops. The Yamaha DBR series is the cheapest I'd ever recommend, and there are serious performance benefits to moving up to the DXR and DZR lines.
Chris
John Lackner:
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Samson Resound VX8.1 might work well for you.
Brian Jojade:
--- Quote from: Dean Illguth on April 29, 2021, 08:30:02 PM ---
Budget 2-3k
The legends at the AVSForum recommended a PA style speaker like the Behringer B215XLs.
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You're not going to get much love around here for the Behringer crap boxes. Yeah, they make noise, so if that's all you care about, it's a cheap solution. But, cheap boxes generally mean more distortion. Distortion can cause ear fatigue and become quite annoying even at low volumes.
From a 'pumping' standpoint, you can either hang big boxes, or even better would be to hang much smaller boxes and add a sub into the mix. It's a gym so you don't have to go super crazy with it. My experience in gyms is they generally go the 'cheap' route and it just never sounds all that great, especially when they crank it up.
With only a 2-3K budget you may have a hard time putting something of quality in, installed correctly. $2-3K might be enough for rigging hardware and the installer.
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