jeffhtg (Jeff Kenney) wrote on Sun, 13 July 2008 17:22 |
Nice... Have you ever heard 6 of them?? That is truley the magic number for your type of music. get back in the shop! |
Josh Billings wrote on Mon, 14 July 2008 17:32 |
I just think these get better the more you add, however in stacks of LESS than 4 you won't understand what the big deal is. -Josh Billings |
Marjan Milosevic(MarjanM) wrote on Tue, 15 July 2008 00:11 |
Midbas are Martin 215 (or was it ASS 215). I will check and the tops are Turbosound Floodlights. |
Marjan Milosevic(MarjanM) wrote on Tue, 15 July 2008 11:54 |
Unlike the DR290, X-tro uses top of the line drivers and hardly needs any EQ to sound good. You will have to play a lot with the EQ settings in order to get DR290 sound good. And if you say X-tro is a complicated build, than you didn't actually see the inside of the DR290. |
lawrencemueller wrote on Mon, 14 July 2008 17:31 |
Yeah, I've seen that pic. I forwarded it to the guy that funded this project. He loved it so much that he made it his desktop image. Speaking of 'American' isn't this setup in the UK? Or am I thinking of a different huge stack of 12 labhorns that are painted blue? Makes me think of that song that Trent Reznor did with David Bowie. I think it's weird that you don't hear at least a sample of it anywhere these days. |
peter.golde wrote on Tue, 15 July 2008 20:45 | ||
Yes I agree the DR290 is complicated, I built some, but the efforts are not wasted, you can load premium drivers in it as well. The results are an efficient, lightweight, arrayable box, and with some eq, (the hard work done and results posted) sound damn good. I have heard these side by side against JBL SRX dual 15 tops playing EDM and the DR's shined, to where the owners of the JBL's came over to take measurements and scratch their heads, and ultimately compliment the system. I built on faith, because I enjoy the process, but I would expect any end user to demo the boxes first before deciding. Peace |
Jeff Babcock wrote on Tue, 22 July 2008 21:24 |
The X-tro is a nice looking design, and I have spoken with one person who is extremely happy and whose opinion I trust. However, it is heavy, not cheap to build, not arrayable, and tri-amp. Not exactly simple or cheap once you take amps, cabling, and processing into consideration. NL8 cables ain't cheap these days. The fitz DR's are not easy to build, although Lab subs are not that simple either, so if you built labs you will probably be OK. They are very cheap in terms of material costs, but if building 290's I would never consider the recommended Eminence HF. Loaded with something like a pair of BMS 4552 drivers (which are a great driver for the price) crossed at about 1K they would be more serious boxes IMHO. |
Josh Billings wrote on Thu, 24 July 2008 09:06 |
I've heard all the DR Tops suffer from a muffled midrange / midbass area because of the bent horn. I can't see how he can overcome trying to fold frequencies like 900 hz -Josh Billings |
Josh Billings wrote on Thu, 24 July 2008 16:06 |
I've heard all the DR Tops suffer ... |
Marjan Milosevic(MarjanM) wrote on Wed, 23 July 2008 05:35 | ||
What do you mean they are not arrayable? Just because they are not trapezoidal does not means you cant use more than one per side. They are 60 degree horizontal dispersion. Just you cant tight pack them and should splay them a bit. Just like any Turbosound Floodlight or Flashlite. Also they can be biamp if you put passive crossover between the 8" and 1". In terms of shire output you can not compare DR290 and Xtro. It is like comparing Volvo and Porsche. Much more HP in the Xtro. |
Jeff Babcock wrote on Tue, 22 July 2008 21:24 |
Back to the OP's original post.... be VERY careful running a PL380 into only 2 Labs. You could very easily see the magic smoke if you are not taking proper precautions. |