From michaelcasino@verizon.net Tue Mar 10 18:56:19 2009
Subject:RE: Seeking powered speaker recommendation

Kind of reminds me of the Dawn speaker system (two cube speakers and a sub)
but I'm sure the Rolland system sounds better.



Mike



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I have a Roland CM 30 Cube powered speaker which sits on a mike stand.? In
addition, I have a JBL Eon 15G2.? Recently, I played a gig and used two
Roland Cube CM 30's in stereo for my keyboard mix and used my JBL powered
speaker for a separate mix on the stage.? My XK-1 Hammond clone can light up
the stage with my Eon powered speaker but the Eon can be a little muddy in
the mid range when playing grand piano samples.??? I love the Roland Cube CM
30.? On the downside, it barely has enough power to compete with the stage
volume.? But with two Roland CM 30's, it is pretty sweet.? And playing in
stereo, despite the complications, can make playing a lot more fun.? The
only drawback to the little Roland cubes is that they cannot take a lot of
deep bass.? You will get distortion.? A work-around is to use the Eon as a
quasi-subwoofer and cut the bass on the Cubes.

I am playing a bar gig in a couple of weeks where I have walk up two flights
of steps. To save my back, I am going to bring two Roland CM 30's and
nothing else.? I can run the sound out of the Cubes back to the mains for
additional volume.

The Cubes are up in the air on mike stands and don't have to be that loud to
be heard.? They don't seem to color the sound as a lot of amps do which I
like.? The funny thing is I don't like the bigger Roland keyboard amps.? I
think they wreck the accoustic piano samples on my board.

My two cents.?

Rick

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