Line 6 Stagesource PA Speakers?

[drpepper]

I had a gig this past weekend where the pa was all Line 6 speakers, mains, subs and monitors...I have never seen or heard of these before and after looking them up, I was surprised to see that they're not at all new (~10 years) and not lower tier price-wise...same range or a little more than comparable-ish QSC models. They're possibly discontinued (?) but still being sold by various resellers.

Anyone have any experience or scoop on these as to why they're apparently so rare. I mean, there are surely speaker brands that I've never seen or heard of, but at the portable/prosumer level and from a known company, I'd just think some time in the past decade I'd have seen them before. Any positive experiences? Are they maybe more popular outside of the US or just not popular at all?

The setup on each side was 2 splayed two or three way mains on top of three 2x12 subs stacked on their sides. Listening to band before us, the vocals were muddy. Other things sounded okay-ish, but there were other things that detracted...e.g., the bass player in that band never stopped messing with the amp (provided backline, so he wasn't familiar I guess) which must have been set to post EQ...yikes!

Anyway, I don't know if it was the sound guy's mixing, running too loud, something the band was doing or the speakers, but what I heard kind of sucked. I listened to one song from the band after us, and it was a little better, but nothing to write home about.

(pic of them was an afterthought)

 

[kittywithabanjo]

I think I have seen maybe 1 in the wild as a monitor, I mean Yamaha does own Line 6 right so you think they would be able to come up with something decent, but not sure why they would since it would compete with the options that Yamaha makes under their own banner.

 

[drpepper]

I think I have seen maybe 1 in the wild as a monitor, I mean Yamaha does own Line 6 right so you think they would be able to come up with something decent, but not sure why they would since it would compete with the options that Yamaha makes under their own banner.

Okay, so maybe it's not just me...and they could be great speakers and that just wasn't a good showing, dunno.

 

[kittywithabanjo]

They did discontinue them, so I guess that doesn't speak well but I have heard great systems mixed badly alot too lol.

 

[Roland GR 88]

Those mains aren’t very powerful and are relatively small. They were really designed as an all-in-one stand alone solution like a Bose L1. Adding 6 (six!!) subs to them won’t improve them and as you discovered probably made things worse.

 

[drpepper]

Those mains aren’t very powerful and are relatively small. They were really designed as an all-in-one stand alone solution like a Bose L1. Adding 6 (six!!) subs to them won’t improve them and as you discovered probably made things worse.

Hmm, there appear to have been a few models. Tall and narrower than some, but these didn't appear that they would have been in the same vein as the Bose L1 or other line array columns...these weren't particularly small (2x10 plus some number of mid and hf drivers, which I'd think was more of an alternative to doing a 3-way with a 15" woofer) or seemingly under-powered. Overall, they were quite loud. They didn't sound good in some ways that could have been "operator error" or the speakers.

If you know them to not sound very good, maybe it was a bit of both.

 

[Paulabass]

I had a gig this past weekend where the pa was all Line 6 speakers, mains, subs and monitors...I have never seen or heard of these before and after looking them up, I was surprised to see that they're not at all new (~10 years) and not lower tier price-wise...same range or a little more than comparable-ish QSC models. They're possibly discontinued (?) but still being sold by various resellers.

Anyone have any experience or scoop on these as to why they're apparently so rare. I mean, there are surely speaker brands that I've never seen or heard of, but at the portable/prosumer level and from a known company, I'd just think some time in the past decade I'd have seen them before. Any positive experiences? Are they maybe more popular outside of the US or just not popular at all?

The setup on each side was 2 splayed two or three way mains on top of three 2x12 subs stacked on their sides. Listening to band before us, the vocals were muddy. Other things sounded okay-ish, but there were other things that detracted...e.g., the bass player in that band never stopped messing with the amp (provided backline, so he wasn't familiar I guess) which must have been set to post EQ...yikes!

Anyway, I don't know if it was the sound guy's mixing, running too loud, something the band was doing or the speakers, but what I heard kind of sucked. I listened to one song from the band after us, and it was a little better, but nothing to write home about.

(pic of them was an afterthought)

Line 6 makes guitar amps for children. Sorry what was the question?