Heres the deal,
I wanted a home stereo that would make the living room feel like a live rock concert, and we do a little karaoke from time to time. I also wanted to be able to open a few windows and have it fairly loud out by the pool. After doing a little research, and not wanting to spend the extra cash on QSC equiptment for home use, I narrowed it down to either EV or Yamaha. I ended up chosing Yamaha, and so far, I'm thinking I shoud have went with EV, but just maybe there is something I'm missing.
I began by purchasing two DBR12's and a MG12XU mixer. After hooking it all up, I quickly came to the conclusion that they are loud as hell, and clear, but I hate the sound, I just don't know how to describe it, but I will try, there is something about the tone of the DBR12's that I don't care for, and there doesn't appear to be any seperation of instruments, its flat sounding, almost like, the band is playing on the other side of the bridge, and I can only hear what is bouncing off the wall. Later, I added the DXS18 subwoofer, hooked it all up as per the manuels, set the same cutoff frequency on both the sub, and the DBR's, and the DBR's still sound bad to me.
I'm wondering if I were to purchase an equalizer and install it between the sub and the DBR's, if that will entirely change the sound of the DBR's to something much better, my mixer only has a knob for Highs and Lows, but no mids, perhaps it is the mids that I'm missing? I guess what I want to ask this group is the following, will installing an EQ solve my problem, or is there a better option that I'm overlooking?
EDIT: Perhaps saying that I "Hate the sound" is being a little overdramatic, they do sound better than the QSC's that a DJ had setup at a friends wedding a month ago. I'm thinking a mixer might do the trick, or is there something else that people use now days instrad of a mixer? Some kind of Digital Sound Processor, or something?
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