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camardelle

camardelle

Feb 19, 2012
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Beautiful Willis, Texas
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I'm looking at an inexpensive PA system at GC. I'm not a gigging professional or someone in a band even...just a student of bass looking for a way to play some backing tracks with some volume.

I'm looking at a Harbinger M100-BT and i appears to only have two outputs. Is there a way to attach more than one pair of speakers....like a "Y" cable/splitter?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
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The PA speakers work exactly the same bass speaker cabinets work, meaning as long as you stay above the minimum impedance of the amplifier and you are below the power handling of the speakers then you should be ok.

Unfortunately that's not going to be easy with this setup. The speaker cabinets are 4ohm each, which is probably the minimum impedance of the amplifier although unfortunately that spec isn't listed in the manual. Also, the speakers don't have a parallel output socket so you'd need custom cabling, blah blah blah.


No. Sorry.
 
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No problem man. We don't get Harbinger over here but I have used and seen similar setups before. Whilst probably not suitable for most kinds of professional, leaving the house and being paid duties, a system like that will be superb in a practice room for backing music. I get so much use out of my little Thomann Mix Six, and that's nowhere near as capable as what you're looking at.

I'm sure it'll suit you well, although the pragmatist would say that more expandable, higher quality gear could be found used.
 
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Can you explain a little more about what you are intending to use the speakers for? And if you have any future plans for the system?

The use case for that "PA" you listed is very limited. If all you need is to play backing tracks for yourself to practice with, you could just spend $100 on some computer/home speakers/monitors. They will easily connect to a computer or other device to play music through, be plenty loud enough for practice, and many have bluetooth as well. That would save you $200.

If you want to eventually use the speakers for anything else, it might be better to spend just a little more now and get something you could actually use for awhile.
 
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Another avenue - I've got a deeply used, 20+ year old Yamaha EMX66M powered mixer and a couple of Yamaha BR15 15"+horn cabs, 600 watts total when using both speakers or with one in bridge mode.

You can find the EMX66M powered mixers for about $300 used, The BR15's usually go for about $100/pair used - they still offer them new for about $350 ea, $700 a pair.

I use mine in bridge mode with just one speaker for home woodshedding and tracks - it works great.

This was my own band's PA for years - the other speaker sits in the basement in case I ever blow this one.
 

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