u/MichiganJayToad

Yup, apparently there is a jumper inside that allows you to bypass the built in low pass filter, which is definitely the way to go.

It's so hard to say. I am just a scene DJ who plays mostly smaller parties, and when it gets late then yea, if a critical number of people start to leave and the party loses some energy it can snowball causing more and more people to leave. It's not necessarily your fault that it happened. I have seen it many times (not just when I'm playing, but when I've been at parties just enjoying myself). But what I will say is that when it's late like that you have to really think about the flow from the previous dj to yourself. If it doesn't feel good then yes you will lose people. You want to make an impact with your opening track but don't come on TOO strong, because people who are tired or who aren't super into your style might just give up when they would otherwise stick around to see where it goes. Keep it approachable at first. Keep an eye on the people, if they aren't grooving do NOT bang it harder or faster, that is usually going to make things worse. Sometimes I notice the dancefloor losing interest and maybe it's because even if I didn't raise the tempo, maybe a track just feels too much at that tempo and it ain't working on tired people.. so I ease it down and boom, the dancefloor perks right up. When you have got them really interested then you can push things harder. That's my 2 cents, I'm not a pro but been at it a long time... But yea it sucks when a set doesn't click with the crowd for whatever reason and you lose them.

Ahh ok you'll be fine with the bus and the plywood, and you're good with 2 x 14AWG and could even make do with a single 12 AWG, however 2 x 14AWG is better. You don't need four of them.

Get some of those extension cords where there are three outlets on the end, it's a better solution than power strips. Two 14awg cords would be sufficient if the distance is low (eg 25 ft) but who wants to DJ just a few feet from a generator even if it's an inverter generator? If I were in your shoes I'd go for a good quality minimum 50ft 12awg cord, two of them.. with three outlets on each. It's a good investment. You can use smaller cords to go from there to various equipment.

Just scream, OH OH OH BABY OOOOHHHHHH! At the top of your lungs. They'll never bother you again....

Yea totally, what they're calling "Continuous" is really what most people would call "Program" power. And what they're calling Nominal is what most people would call either Continuous or RMS power. There's nothing wrong about using "Nominal" the way they are using it, but their use of "Continuous" is definitely confusing.

Ok I looked into it, they call it "Adaptive Dynamic Loudness" and it's an upcoming feature, not released yet. For now you can just apply a little bass boost and a little treble boost to get a similar effect.

Possible you had loudness compensation turned on in the Sonos. The clue is that you say you especially notice a difference at low volumes...

Wiim has a loudness compensation feature as well and I believe it's customizeable.. I have a Wiim Ultra but I've not used that feature so I'll leave it at that.

Where do you keep your files at home, do you have a NAS, file server, media server or anything like that?

Yea definitely, newer ones with True RMS control are ideal for system protection. More old-school AGC's or compressors set up as AGC's just ride the level, like a hand on the fader. But they don't take crest factor into account. So you have to be a little more conservative when setting them.

There's totally such a thing as too much limiting. Limiting controls peak power, so there's no clipping.. but it allows average power to go up up up, until your voice coils melt.

The best way to do this is with a "leveler" aka "agc" type unit, some processors have this function built in (for example the Ashly Protea 24.24's I used to use had it). Or you can do it with an ordinary compressor, you set a very fast attack and a very slow decay.. you need at least multiple seconds of decay which not every compressor gives you... That'll ride the level for you without actually compressing.

Ahh right, truth. I forgot the coaxial driver. Even more argument to avoid the kick.

If money is your concern, I wouldn't go with a sub + kick + top setup, but choose a sub design that'll cover the kick range too and build however many you can afford. JW (guy who designed the JMOD) likes the SKHORN and for your needs two of them is probably enough. If you don't mind the weight of a 21.. The Art Welter Keystone is also a good one, I have heard those and they sound really pro, very good. The Paraflex Type O 2x12 is one I haven't heard but I'm interested in it, a lot of people have nice things to say and the size and weight are very friendly for their output. Having a three way system instead of four way requires fewer channels of amp, fewer channels processing, easier to tune. But if you feel like you want to cross to your top even higher than these subs allow, you can add a kick later.

In our legal system, the suspect is innocent until proven guilty, that much is true and it's the only thing your boyfriend is right about. But.. she went to the campus police, she made a statement, they wrote down her statement... then the campus police LIED about what she said.. that is known. The state didn't bring charges and they didn't investigate, because of that lie. There should have been a full investigation, there wasn't. That was wrong. There were witnesses, they should have been questioned, they weren't. That was wrong. Those guys sent compromising photos of her to their friends.. that is a known fact, and something that itself is now a crime in many states. NONE of the people who received those photos spoke up. That was wrong. Everything possible that should have been done for her was not done. Now your boyfriend thinks that because she "might" have lied none of this matters??? It's not his job to decide that, it's for the police to investigate and for the courts to decide, which they didn't do.

Yea I got ya, I have to say.. I seriously doubt that just one 12 inch sub even in a very high gain enclosure is going to be sufficient for any kind of party situation (short of a friendly house party or a fairly quiet lounge event). If I were you I'd plan on two of the B&C single 12 subs or one double 12 like the paraflex.

In the past -26 for all (bass mid treble) was the most common because of the popularity of Pioneer, but the Xone was not that different having -27 (iirc) on the 32 and 62, none of the popular mixers had full kill, Vestax had even less cut than Pioneer. Along came Ecler and Rane with full kill on every EQ and then Pioneer offered it with a switch to select one or the other.... While Allen & Heath compromised on the 92 by leaving the mids alone and doing full kill for the Bass and Treble.

When I first started seriously djing I worried a lot about this and couldn't make up my mind what mixer to get. I wanted a lot of cut, more than most mixers had at the time, I thought that my problems transitioning the bass would be solved by a mixer with really big cuts on the EQ. But now after being at it for a long time I realized it's not that hard to mix with even -15 eq's, it's a little trickier but with practice I could do it.

All that said, I actually DO prefer full kill EQ and use that, so I understand people wanting them. But I have mixed on the Xone 92 a bunch of times and it's not been a real problem at all, it's like anything else once you have used it a few times and gotten familiar then it's not a problem at all, and it's a great sounding mixer. Def if you offered me one I'd be happy to have it.

Ok so.. that driver is rated 1000w continuous, 8 ohms. Do you have the dual 12 paraflex sub in mind? So that would be two drivers per sub, 2000W continuous at 4ohms, ideally you want an amp capable of double that peak, or nearly. Well, that's probably out of your league budget-wise. I mean, you can get a CVR or an Admark which give you crazy high power for very low cost per watt .. but that's minimum us dollars you're looking at, it's a great deal for the power, but.. if you want cheap, I'd suggest a Behringer NX6000 would do pretty well, not quite the full power but more than enough to make you happy for quite a while. I think they're 500-something new (usd), if you can find a used one that would be your ticket...

DBR15 doesn't have a low pass sub output, only high pass for itself. So still need a crossover or DSP (or an amp with DSP). But yea basically it will cost more to build sub + amp + processing (if not in amp), but if O/P wants to expand to two subs and eventually build even more than that, may be a good start...

How could it be "open decks" with no decks?? They should have told you.

Ahh I get it. I think (not really being a speaker designer myself but having learned some), that at low frequencies the steps in size don't matter as much, as you go up they start to matter more.

Yea I suppose they could do that, it just wouldn't make business sense. I think it's more like, if they don't do it.. their competitors will. But also, there are some rules regarding use of spectrum, carriers can't just buy spectrum and sit on it, they are required to use it. What I really don't know is.. let's say a carrier has a huge spectrum allocation, and they have cells built.. and they have traffic spread across the all the bands they are licensed for.. they're USING all the spectrum. But let's say they're only carrying 40% of the traffic that allocation could carry.. and they're not growing. At what point do they lose some spectrum to competitors who can use it? I'm curious to know that... But yea, I mean, I hear you. It's actually kind of stupid that, considering that everyone's using LTE, it's kind of stupid that in some places you have numerous cells covering the same location, in other places you have just one cell site and some people have service and others don't (is roaming even a thing anymore??). Assuming that spectrum is a limited/shared resource that no one person or company can really own, assuming again that there are already a lot of rules about what companies can use spectrum, how much of it, and how they use it.. wouldn't it make sense to just go the extra step and say that every cell should just serve every carrier and thus make the most efficient use of all the available spectrum?? And then just sort out the money based on how much use each carrier makes of other carriers cells. So kinds, it's not whether you're an MNO or an MVNO.. but more like, what percentage of your traffic do you carry on your own cell sites and what percentage do you carry on those owned by others. You could be the biggest carrier in the world but on some island somewhere you don't have a site but some little company does, and every time one of your customers goes to the island, they get a little money from you for that traffic. When the islanders visit the mainland, the money flows the other way.....

Cool :) Really tidy work, what sub design is that? TH-18?

I haven't turned the X380 on for a long time, but I'll see if I can check it out for you later. But I have the X13 Gen 2 in front of me right now.. and sure, it's not great all the way off to the side. I would say it looks good for approx 90 degrees.. 45 each way. Or, let's say, if you're sitting in front of it.. you can move left to right until you're about halfway overlapping the computer, and it still looks great. If you go further than that it starts to get a bit weird. The thing is, Lenovo uses a lot of different displays in different models/years/resolutions/variants. Years ago I bought a used X370, and I loved it, the display looked great. But I had to return it for other reasons, so I got the X380 Yoga, which was a better machine.. but I didn't love the display as much. It was.. different. Nothing REALLY wrong with it, I just didn't like the color as much. Then I got the X13 gen3, again, loved the display.. but I managed to damage the machine (still need to repair that), so I have the G2 and.. again.. the display's good.. but I liked the G3 more. It's not just the resolution, it's something else about it.... But it's still a really nice screen, I'm not complaining. I'm happy with it. But yea, this particular X13 g2, whatever screen it has.. it doesn't do well way off to the side. But for me it's no real problem.

MVNO's are helpful to the MNO's because the MVNO's bring more customers onto the network at minimal expense to the MNO.. every MVNO a carrier has is one more voice in the market, competing.. luring people away from competing carriers. There are all sorts of differentiating factors. Mint has their branding and marketing as a bargain service.. T-Mobile might not want to offer a bargain tier that competes with Mint.. it's just not what they want for their brand. Who actually owns Mint is of secondary importance to the brand message and what kind of customer they attract. I just switched from T-Mobile to Google Fi.. two years ago I switched from Google Fi to T-Mobile ;) Same network, slightly different value propositions. Google has somewhat better deals on Google phones right now, but they cap your data allowance (100GB.. not bad). T-Mobile charges you extra for smart watch, tablet etc data service.. Google doesn't.. you can add those for free but they draw from the same data allowance as your phone. T-Mobile offers satellite as an add-on, I don't think Google does..... In my case, if T-Mobile hadn't had Google as an MVNO we might have switched to a direct competitor. Since they had Google as their MVNO they were able to keep getting some revenue from us...

How did it work out?