From egbdf13579@yahoo.com Thu Feb 05 05:57:26 2004
Subject:Re: keyboard amp systems.

I was using a Roland KC-500 for my rig & found it much too boomy for
my likes. Then I switched to a KC-300, and while the sound was good,
it was too small to cut through a two-guitar rock band.

Then I came upon a used Mackie 200AM active speaker, similar to the
SRM450 but a little smaller (38 lbs.)--it's usually used for fixed
installation systems. Loved the clarity & power and within 3 months
found a second one on eBay for $300. Now I keep one at rehearsal &
one at home, and for gigs I use both, setting one behind me on one
side of the stage & the other on the opposite side, both up off the
ground on milk crates. Running it stereo out of my board, it sounds
so good I usually don't want to muck it up by going through the P.A.
Organs, synth, piano, Rhodes, strings--all right there. And they've
never gotten hot, but I've never had to turn either speaker over
halfway.

I imagine this new Mackie 350 is pretty awesome as well.

Jay

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "inversemedia"
wrote:
> product of great components. An active system is a no brainer until
> you start to compare the SS amps/xovers/compressors in these lines.
> Any experience with thermal overheating, sonic quality in these?
> (EONs, SRM450s, Barbetta, any others?)
>