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Typical line arrays are custom-aligned and tuned for each venue and take much time and expertise to set up, not to mention quite a bit of equipment. This is to offer more uniform coverage so the people in front aren’t blasted out while the people in back can still hear full-range clearly.

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What’s really cool is that you can also power them directly from a car’s 12V accessory power (cigarette lighter) outlet, extending their run time and allowing you to actually do those long gigs in the middle of a field, DJ Corn Maze.įor the uninitiated, a speaker line or column array uses many smaller drivers in a row (more accurately a column) to achieve different volume levels and frequency bands at different distances from the speaker stack. Their batteries can power them for about two hours at high volume, and they can also be run from AC power like typical powered speakers. I’ll be reviewing them in various configurations (starting with the S600B by itself,) so you can decide which would work best for you. You can mix and match them as desired so the system can grow with you as your needs change, as each S600B is able to power up to three additional S648s. S610B – Battery-powered sub-woofer (with integrated amplifier.) S648 – Column-array extension cabinet (for more coverage or stereo,) powered by the amplifier in the S600B (or any other suitable amp.) S600B – The centerpiece: battery-powered column-array speaker with integrated 6-channel mixer (and 2-channel amplifier)

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The S600 series is made up of a couple of models: high sound quality at high volume,) which benefits DJs as well (those of us that use high-quality/lossless source files anyway.)Īlthough they have many more traditional speakers in their product lines (some that cost less to boot), I wanted to review their new S600 series, because they pack a lot of power and features into their small size, which is of immediate interest to the mobile DJ, a designation which I suspect applies to most of you reading this. As a result, their speaker product lines are aimed at live sound reinforcement scenarios (i.e. Since they also have a large focus on guitar and bass amps, they understand that sound quality is of key importance as musicians can be very discerning.

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They’ve been going strong ever since and now have a whole range of well-priced pro audio products that sound, look, and work great and are made in the USA as well. I was impressed with the build and sound quality (comparing well to the high-end brands we used for larger shows,) and was surprised at their very reasonable prices.Ĭarvin has always been a direct-sales company which allows them to cut out the many middlemen involved in typical pro audio equipment sales and distribution, a novel concept at the time of their founding. I found out about San Diego, California-based Carvin in the late 1990s as the rental company I was with used their cabinets for smaller shows and stage monitors. Carvin who?ĭue to my work with live sound reinforcement systems, I’ve been able to use a number of speaker cabinet brands.

So I feel I’m quite well qualified to discuss speakers from a DJ’s perspective, and what better way to begin our horizon broadening than with such a key component? Welcome to the first of what we expect (hope?) will be many reviews in this vein. Seriously, I DJed my own first communion party at 7 years old with that thing, sans dust cover like a pro. I’ve also been a DJ since I had my first Fisher-Price turntable. We ran it at like 2% because we’re not into obliterating people’s ears or the local electrical grid, but still, seeing that many speaker cabinets in one big pile is something to behold. As for me, I have years of experience designing, assembling and running DMX-controlled stage lighting and live sound systems, including a 22,000 watt “wall of sound” one time.

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, LINK: Carvin | PRICE: S600B – $799 : S648 – $399 : S610B – $699 | MANUAL: PDF A little introduction I rocked a few parties on this.įor quite awhile now, we’d been flirting with the idea of covering additional areas of the DJ equipment arsenal with the same level of scrutiny and quality you, dear reader, have come to expect from the fine institution that is DJWORX.

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