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TangDynasty
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Bart, most of the time I sing with backing tracks in small and medium venues, but I just get started to do sound for a three-men band, drum, guitar and keyboard (have to mic up the drum and guitar). So a well-balanced system with great clarity is what I'm looking for. Price wise, I would say under $2,000 per top speaker. Since we both think RCF sub is far away from tightness, what will be your pick? Thanks again.
Well, you will have to compromise one way or the other. Here in Germany 2,000$ equals 2.000β¬. It is too much for any mi stuff but a tad too less for an active pro top. We do have a lot of smaller manufactures over here with really great stuff (like Kling & Freitag, Seeburg, Lamba Labs, KS Audio, Foohn and so on), there you might find a real classy top for 2k. For example the TX-2
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The TX-2a is a tad louder than a RCF-TT22, but it sounds way better. More open, transparent and it keeps its sound, even when pushed very hard. It has a streetprice around 2k. Put a MF-15 sub under it, and you got a lightweight, loud system with top notch sound. I'm very confident, that you will have over the pond these kind of smaller vendors as well. But most of them are unknown to me. I mixed one over a smaller Vue HS Speakersystem, liked it a lot - sounds really good. Maybe someone can chime in.
On the other hand, maybe give the IQ stuff a try. These are not the most tansparent, loudest boxes out there. But they have a nice warm sound, even at high levels and are very flexibel (DJ or live sound), not to heavy and really a steal for what they do...