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ttyR2

Feb 23, 2003
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Athena, OR
www.wheatfarm.com
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We're in the market for some different monitors (four in total) as the current Bag End TA1200's (which sound great) are just too big for the cramped confines of the stage at church. I'm looking more at the classic wide and shallow style over the BE's which are narrow and deep.

I am also toying with the idea of building a set myself using Eminence Beta-10CX coax speakers and tweeters, one per box. The frequency response looks pretty flat depending on the size of box.
 
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ttyR2 said:
Money is an issue :-) Hence me thinking about making a set of monitors myself.
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Don't do that. Just keep an eye on Craigslist. Used speakers come up all the time and usually sell for very cheap because they are hard to unload. They typically have to sell locally because of size and therefore aren't eBay fodder, which makes the buyer base very small - this means it's a buyer's market, so shoot low.

Here are some about 30 minutes from you: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
 
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I think you would be down grading your monitors going to the Yamaha Club series or similar spec'd floor monitor, the BE cabs you have are a step above the club series, JBL JRX & MRX series IMO.

I think you would be better off saving up a bit more money (maybe replacing one monitor at a time) and going into something like the EAW micro-wedge
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Great sounding monitors and very compact.....and worth the money.

But, if money is an issue.......the EAW is a great design to try and copy with a coaxial speaker from another source :)
 
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Vinny D said:
I think you would be down grading your monitors going to the Yamaha Club series or similar spec'd floor monitor, the BE cabs you have are a step above the club series, JBL JRX & MRX series IMO.
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I tend to agree with this. The BE boxes are a step above the MI class GC type boxes.

Vinny D said:
I think you would be better off saving up a bit more money (maybe replacing one monitor at a time) and going into something like the EAW micro-wedge
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Great sounding monitors and very compact.....and worth the money.
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Still pretty expensive boxes, you really get what you pay for here. Its a buyers market in the pro world as well. Dave's design was one of the first well received coax type, since, there are many coax designs out there. Powered and conventional.
Vinny D said:
But, if money is an issue.......the EAW is a great design to try and copy with a coaxial speaker from another source :)
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Like maybe Radian? That is the driver that Dave used. Also, P-audio makes a series of coax's as does B&C. Building your own wedges is not as easy as it sounds. The microwedge is a fairly complicated peice of wood. Only a few pro audio tour companies has been able to do it successfully, Clair, Sound Image, Ratt, NWS (which is the pre-cursor to the new meyer box) and the ilk. The EAW Microwedge is really just a re-badged Ratt wedge. Radian had them as well.
For next teir monitors, you may look at the yorkvilles or jbl. A step down from the pro touring type, but in the same range or above as the BE. Also maybe the JBL srx series wedges. Low profile, decent price. A step up from the BE/yorkies. Building wedges that would be better than the BE's, would take alot of resources. Prototyping, driver selection, testing, crossover design, finishing, etc.. You really just cant do it with a table saw and some lumber :-) In the end you would being better served to just buy new. It would be cheaper. You could also check soundbroker.com, to get an idea what the used market is doing.
 

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