These speakers sound Amazibg out of the box. The Dsp is fabulous and speaker box is very elegant

Fantastic sounding speakers!!
Our sound company has been sub renting these boxes out a lot and our clients all have nothing but wonderful things to say!

I had the misfortune of being a guinea pig for the "Do it again" folks. They brought in 16 of these with a plan to hang them 4 deep in a circle around a stag due to ballroom height and sight line issues. I followed their deaign but knowing now what I know about these boxes, I would have fought tooth and nail against their design.


Ballroom was 120' by 330' and we were playing center on the long side. We did NOT run performancr manager due to lack of cabling (again, hindsight head slap) and were at about 16 feet to the bottom of each array.

Here's what I liked about the boxes
1. They are very light for a box with 800w worth of amplification and 2-10" drivers. JBL has finally figured out a rigging system that appears to NOT have parts that are going to fly off (VTX), and allow lots of fine adjustment for rigging (VRX)
2. Yeah... thats about it...

What I did not like
1. After hanging the boxes as per the rigging software (LAC 3.9.0) even before wd lifted them to trim, it was evident that they were off by a lot. Best I can figure without an inclinometer, about 10 to 15 degrees high. I dpuble checked all the pick points, speaker bracket points, rigging points amd all were as per software. I thought maybe I picked the bracket off 0.5 instead of 5 but nope, that accentuated the problem, not fix it. We ended up changing fly holes off the bracket. Wasn't great, but was better.
2. When I applied signal to the arrays, I was flabergasted by the amount of high end coming from them. Almost as if there was no mid drivers. It was staggering to the degree that as I write this, I am wondering if the 10's were out of phase. Not my boxes, not my issue.
3. The low mid was missing at distance and crazy behind the array. Due to location, this just rolled around the stage like crazy and again, my eq's were beat even more up.
4. There was zero throw. They went 70 feet and just stopped. Just not a normal characteristic for a box that is supposed to be a line array.

I was the first to use these particular boxes to my knowledge and I don't knkw if they were built wrong (10's out of phase with each other?) And we did favtory reset each box before sending them up to erase anybpossible DSP stored.

I see reviews from people about these boxes that say they are great, but IMHO, my 36 years of using most of the PAs, consoles and mics on the planet, these boxes just do not stand up at all.

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