I already love the one I have. Can't wait for the 2nd one to come.
Strangely, I actually thought about using them as a PA also as others have suggested. I would imagine I would need a sub for that however.
I'll be experimenting with them over time and post what I find out here on the forum.
Just out of curiosity, do you guys sum the L+R together for a mono setup using only one speaker or do you just use one output side?
I've been just using the L side and it sounds fine, but with some presets I use different cabs and mics for each side. So it would sound different if I used the R instead of the L. (I plan on giving the house R while I use L until I get two of them)
Just curious.
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I would not recommend you use them as a PA except in the smallest and most intimate venues. They are far too directional for that IMHO. Even with two, the cone of usable on-axis behavior isn't what I'd prefer in a PA system. They are best used, IMHO, for what they are designed to do - be floor monitors.
I just use output 1; L to my RCF and R to FOH. Set the output level for FOH, then I adjust the volume on the RCF for me. Done. Zero phase issues ever. Just works for me.
Scott, can you talk a bit more about your Fletcher-Munson curve comment? It seems to me that the FM curve applies equally to any speaker. I suspect I'm missed something in the middle of all this!
Thanks.
Terry.
Some speakers have a built-in hype on the low and the highs so the Fletcher-Munson curve is exaggerated, often irritatingly, when you turn up the volumes to gig level. My point was not to imply the RCF doesn't exhibit this, but that it does not exaggerate it based on volume to the extent other speakers do. It sounds essentially the same from +70db to +130db. Not many speakers exhibit that sort of behavior. In fact, you need to get into the +$2K USD each level speakers before you start to see/hear that sort of performance normally. When I characterize the RCF as a professional level solution; that's what I am getting at. Very few (if any) pro-sumer level boxes can honestly say they do this. None I've tried have been anywhere like the RCF NX in this behavior.
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