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Peavey Heavyweights

Advantages: Audio Quality
Disadvantages: They are heavy!

I have already reviewed the Peavey PRO-12 speakers, which, for all purposes are the little brothers of these, the Peavey PRO-15. I will do my best not to make this review a comparison piece but I will apologise in advance if, at times, it seems I am compariong the two. As with all Peavey products, these are high quality in build, design and audio output. The speaker cabinet is protected by strong black carpet, something which seems to be the norm ...
...to the plastic handles which Peavey have thoughtfully built in to either side of the speaker cabinet. The audio inputs on the speakers come in the form of two quarter inch jacks or two speakon connector inputs. Performance wise, these are great. You get excellent clarity and the music goes very loud indeed. The Pro-15s give you 300 watts rms output which is fairly impressive for this price range (you can get a pair of these for between £250 to £300 ...

dandadda 25.03.2009 · Read full review

Review of Peavey Messenger PRO 15P (Single)

Peavey For The Win!

Advantages: Great sounding, medium size
Disadvantages: n/a

...PA speakers to invest in, Peavey were the ones that everyone I know seemed to recommend. I tried out a few pairs (which I will review on here in time) but these are the ones I bought so I will start with these. The Pro-12 is from Peavey's 'Messenger Pro' range of speakers and, as speakers go, they are pretty good to look at. They are not massive and, according to the manual, they are 22.6" high, 16.3" wide and 14" deep. I won't argue with that. They ...
...and comfortable handles on both sides of the speaker unit. I wouldn't like to carry them very far as they are quite heavy. Its quite easy to get them mounted onto speakers stands which is something that I think is very very important. The speaker unit is covered in the black carpet material that seems to be standard with most PA speakers, it feels quite soft and offers some protection to the everyday wear and tear that they are bound to face. I've ...

dandadda 25.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Peavey Messenger PRO 12

Peavey Pro 12

Advantages: Great sounding, medium size
Disadvantages: N/A

...PA speakers to invest in, Peavey were the ones that everyone I know seemed to recommend. I tried out a few pairs (which I will review on here in time) but these are the ones I bought so I will start with these. The Pro-12 is from Peavey's 'Messenger Pro' range of speakers and, as speakers go, they are pretty good to look at. They are not massive and, according to the manual, they are 22.6" high, 16.3" wide and 14" deep. I won't argue with that. They ...
...and comfortable handles on both sides of the speaker unit. I wouldn't like to carry them very far as they are quite heavy. Its quite easy to get them mounted onto speakers stands which is something that I think is very very important. The speaker unit is covered in the black carpet material that seems to be standard with most PA speakers, it feels quite soft and offers some protection to the everyday wear and tear that they are bound to face. I've ...

dandadda 19.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Peavey Messenger PRO 12

JBL Bass Rumblers

Advantages: Good bass frequencies
Disadvantages: N/A

BL are famous for their quality speakers and users of their products won't be surprised to discover that this self-powered subwoofer is excellent. Weighing in at 500 Watts (at peak) and 300 Watts (RMS) this is a hefty piece of kit which provides excellent sound quality and a proper booming bass. I reall;y wish I could say that I own a pair of these babies but I don't. I've borrowed a friends set a few times and have been blown away with them. I really ...
...I can find them for is just under £500 (maybe I should start saving). They are really easy to set up, with two XLR inputs or one 1/4 inch jack input. They also have two XLR outputs if you need to wire them up in a 'chain' of speakers (which is easy enough to do if you know what you are doing). These badboys are not massive but they weight a fair bit, I've never actually weighed them but a bit of internet investigation shows that they weigh in at ...

dandadda 19.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of JBL JRX-118SP

SX300 ROCKS!

Advantages: Great mid-high range speaker
Disadvantages: not so good bass

Introduction The Electro-voice SX300 PA speaker is an extremely lightweight PA speaker, but still delivers in both sound quality and volume as bigger and heavier speakers. I myself bought these speakers for use as monitors for my music studio, but since then I have used them for discos and other activities at my school, as they are easy to transport. I use these speakers with two EV bass cabinets and power them with two peavey power amplifiers. ...
...in small-medium sized venues. Construction The SX300's are made mainly of plastic but they do have metal fixings on them to secure the whole cabinet. The speaker mesh on the SX300 is solid metal, not the cheap bendy stuff, and takes a lot of force to damage it. On one side of the cabinet is a handle, in my opinion it would have been better to have a handle on either side, as when you try to carry two at a time you sometimes end up bashing them ...

ILIKEMONEY 13.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Electro-Voice SX300 PA Speaker