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Cab with lots of different-sized speakers

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Short4since64 said:
Two of these, eighteen 15s, out of a night club,
Genital jigglers, you dance 6 feet in front of them.
Meant to be seen and felt.
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Now sitting in a storage unit in Florida collecting dust. Bring a truck and muscles.
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Too bad, I live in France, I'm afraid it won't fit in the cabin overhead :smug:.
 
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There's a reason why most of these multi-sized driver cabinets have fallen beside the road.

They were an attempt at creating a product that was visually compelling even if they didn't sound as good as a well designed yet simpler cabinet.

As speaker components have greatly improved in performance, power handling and reliability, there are no real world benefits (with some very specific, heavily engineered exceptions).
 
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It's been said already, but it needs to be emphasized that there is huge difference between well-designed and engineered multi-way speaker systems and those older collections of 'cabs with 'lots of differently sized drivers'. I'll also note that the knowledge of how to design high-performance multi-way systems existed long before those horrific, multi-driver cabs that some have cited were offered in the marketplace. There's more than a grain of truth in @agedhorse's observation that many of these products seemed to have been designed to be visually compelling.
 
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agedhorse said:
There's a reason why most of these multi-sized driver cabinets have fallen beside the road.

They were an attempt at creating a product that was visually compelling even if they didn't sound as good as a well designed yet simpler cabinet.

As speaker components have greatly improved in performance, power handling and reliability, there are no real world benefits (with some very specific, heavily engineered exceptions).
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Dissimilar speakers in individual rear volumes carrying the same frequency range = difficult to build and heavy. Get two cabs and stack. Dissimilar speakers sharing the same internal volume = impossible to tune. Maybe ok in an open back guitar cab which is intended to sound ratty. And the frequency range of bass guitar never requires more than a 2-way.
 
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gtirard said:
+ GR Bass (all of them can be mixed, and that's a lot: 12 models of all sizes and shapes). From my little study about cab modularity.

With Barefaced, you can mix and match any of the 10inch cabs, or any of the 12inch cabs (but it's not recommanded to mix a 10inch cab with a 12 inch because each family has a different tone)
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Those look serious cool ... and really expensive.
 
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groovaholic said:
There was a speaker/amp company in Colorado, ca. early 2000s called "Madison".

They had a cabinet called the "Hydra" that had drivers ranging from a 21" sub up to a tweeter:

One 21" subwoofer
One 12" woofer
Two 8" midrange
One horn tweeter

Never played through it, just remember seeing it on their website and have a "huh ?!?!" moment…
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Madison did make some very nice, efficient and affordable cabs. We had 4 single 18s and two dual 15s with mids and highs. They sounded great and really kicked.
I built a 2-10 combo using (2) Madison 10s and a Piezo tweeter, QSC RMX 2450, and a Peavey MAX Tube Preamp. It really sounded great but was heavy as hell, about 70 lbs.
 
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Pep said:
How about the Mesa PH-1000? 😉View attachment 7355505
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The PH-1000 was anything but an inexpensive cabinet... very expensive, premium drivers and the 10's + 15 co-existed pretty well actually. It's an exception to the rule (as I mentioned earlier). Players either really like it or really hate it, not much in the middle, but cost and weight also plays into this at over $2.5k (today's dollars) and 150+ lbs. IMO, totally impractical for most players.
 
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rockambo said:
Pivot here, how about an 18" cab paired with a 2x8"? Yes, I'm appreciating the absurdity; I can't afford any of these anyway, nor can I afford the inevitable physical therapy without Medicaid.
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Scale down. a 15, a 7 and a tweeter. Thats my PJB Micro-7 practice amp on top of a 15" off-name powered sub that was given to me because of a broken jack. Does everything I need it to do, sounds like a very loud B15 with modern highs. The PJB is 50W, the sub' estimated from it's power supply rail voltages around 200. That addictive stomach punch from monster gear was fun back then, but age, sensible volume, knee disability and no roadies causes some necessary changes.
 
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Short4since64 said:
Scale down. a 15, a 7 and a tweeter. Thats my PJB Micro-7 practice amp on top of a 15" off-name powered sub that was given to me because of a broken jack. Does everything I need it to do, sounds like a very loud B15 with modern highs. The PJB is 50W, the sub' estimated from it's power supply rail voltages around 200. That addictive stomach punch from monster gear was fun back then, but age, sensible volume, knee disability and no roadies causes some necessary changes.
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These are very rational reasons and I'm a not a spring chicken either.
 

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