Well I finally screwed in the last parts of the dr300's that Harley built for me and fired them up for the first time this afternoon. I had both of them sitting on top of my 4 LAB subs, the most noticeable thing for me was how punchy and clear they were in the bottom end, I had them crossed over at 80hz with the labs and they seemed to meet well there. They really added some serious thump to the labs that I haven't heard with my mackies which I thought so far have sounded a bit tinny on top of the labs at times. So far I am happy with the potential, I haven't had a chance to pink them yet and will do so using rta and driverack pa. I guess you have probably figured I am fairly novice, by no means anywhere as experienced as many here but hope this may interest some people.
I guess the most interesting part of this is that the dr300 (and dr290) are horn loaded all the way down to 80hz so theoretically could work well with the LABS ?
I was a bit nervous to fire these up as I wasn't sure if I might be dissapointed with them, well just with the eq flat they actually sounded pretty impressive, certainly loud enough, although a bit harsh here and there so looking forward now to seeing if I can get some extra fidelity with them using the driverack and rta mic and will report back here once I have tested that.
Any suggestions, tips, welcomed, am wondering what amp set up to use for the dr's?
This is what I tested with today.
2x DR300 - top end 2 x 200watts ? into 16ohms (1 zpe800 crossed at 1200hz)
- mid bass 2 x 1000watts into 8ohms (2 mackie m1400's)
4x LABS - 2 x 2500watts into 2ohms (parralleled pairs/1 crown itech6000)
With the 4 labs clustered centrally, with this set up I felt like I wanted to push up the mid range and even more so, the top end.