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How many speakers is too many?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:03 am
by subharmonic
Coming from the home audio world I never really dealt with stacking speakers much.
So when is enough enough? How long can I make my chain? What am I losing with multiple speakers in a run? Pending I can make all the resistance balance out to 4-8 ohms, there has to be a limit. What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
Re: How many speakers is too many?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:37 am
by Rune Bivrin
Nothing special, other than that you need a pretty powerful amp capable of redonculous voltage swing to use the stack to its full potential. And the wiring to make that happen will be a weird beast. Not easy to get it right on a busy day of rigging.
The scalability sucks, and it's just more convenient with more small amps.
Re: How many speakers is too many?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:40 am
by Israel
the ceiling is your limit pal
Re: How many speakers is too many?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:18 am
by Doug Hart
subharmonic wrote:What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
Ummm... a big party?
Re: How many speakers is too many?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:40 am
by Jon Barnhardt
subharmonic wrote:Coming from the home audio world I never really dealt with stacking speakers much.
So when is enough enough? How long can I make my chain? What am I losing with multiple speakers in a run? Pending I can make all the resistance balance out to 4-8 ohms, there has to be a limit. What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
I've played some big events and would never envision needing more than 4 per side. Any bigger than that and you are looking at flying the PA anyway...