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Huge sound systems

#1 Post by Ryan A »

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ahkb8Nr ... re=related

We can only imagine having a BFM system of similar proportions and how much louder and more sensitive it would be! Surely we can pick better music too.

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ryan222h wrote:Have you guys seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ahkb8Nr ... re=related

We can only imagine having a BFM system of similar proportions and how much louder and more sensitive it would be! Surely we can pick better music too.
My wife and I were in the Philippines to visit her family in July 2005 and they had a local DJ for her birthday party. All the boxes looked DYI and it was one giant stack probably 16' x 12'. It was quite fun watching the setup.
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#3 Post by Bas Gooiker »

ehh... less is more.... :noob: nop... this is more!!

This looks like the guy needs to compensate something.
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#4 Post by BrentEvans »

These rigs are designed to look massive, not sound great. A much smaller BF system, properly designed and deployed, could certainly blow that rig away in both sound quality and SPL. However, at a certain point it becomes a bit of a moot issue, as you reach the sensitivity barrier.

That said, a BF system of similar size in similar deployment would sound about the same. Cancellations, interference nodes, and sheer volume would see to that.
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#5 Post by But it Hertz »

I think the camera phone dude filmed exactly the same as I would react. Just stand there looking back and forth trying to figure out why you would do this.

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Bas Gooiker wrote:ehh... less is more...
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#7 Post by maxo »

and where is the close up of the power amps driving that masive cabs
i counted close to 70 subs

so i will drive 4 with a crown MA-5002 VZ who on the spec sheet is rated at 2kw at 4 ohms on stereo mode
so i hook up 2 cabs per channel

70/4 equals like to 17 or 18 amps , just for the subs
the full range and high cabs i dont know...
so at least those guys need to have 18 amps for the subs with the crown specs...

that i really doubt
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maxo wrote: so at least those guys need to have 18 amps for the subs with the crown specs...

that i really doubt
The engineering knowhow that set up a setup like that would probably think it A-OK to run amps full bore at 2 ohms. That halves the amp count to 9. If they knew how to series-parallel wire (and had amps of sufficient voltage swing) the whole thing could be run on half that many (4 or 5 for subs). Technically, with some creative wiring and stupid powerful amps, you could run all of the subs on one or two amps.
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BrentEvans wrote:
maxo wrote: so at least those guys need to have 18 amps for the subs with the crown specs...

that i really doubt
The engineering knowhow that set up a setup like that would probably think it A-OK to run amps full bore at 2 ohms. That halves the amp count to 9. If they knew how to series-parallel wire (and had amps of sufficient voltage swing) the whole thing could be run on half that many (4 or 5 for subs). Technically, with some creative wiring and stupid powerful amps, you could run all of the subs on one or two amps.
Personally
i prefer modular systems
in the case that some monkey misswire or short my cables i loose a couple of cabs
instead of the whole wall or half of it if i run only 1 or 2 amps
is better to have some boom than nothing at all in case of havoc
imho
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#10 Post by BrentEvans »

maxo wrote: Personally
i prefer modular systems
in the case that some monkey misswire or short my cables i loose a couple of cabs
instead of the whole wall or half of it if i run only 1 or 2 amps
is better to have some boom than nothing at all in case of havoc
imho

I didn't say it was recommended... just possible.
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BrentEvans wrote:
maxo wrote: Personally
i prefer modular systems
in the case that some monkey misswire or short my cables i loose a couple of cabs
instead of the whole wall or half of it if i run only 1 or 2 amps
is better to have some boom than nothing at all in case of havoc
imho

I didn't say it was recommended... just possible.
I just expressed my very own personal opinion
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but your approach is very elegant
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