MACKIE HD vs JBL EON

[tINY]

Generally, JBL is a good choice. In this low-end speaker-on-a-stick market, I'd be inclined toward the Mackies, though.



-tINY

[socanadian]

Why would you be inclined to go with the mackies?

[tINY]

Generally of better design in this bracket. The high-end JBL stuff is at least as good as the EAW boxes. But, in the low price designs, Mackie tends to deliver better performance.

I haven't heard the new Mackie Sound-on-stick boxes. But, the EON was not quite up to music reproduction like the QSC, Cerwin-Vega, or EV speakers I auditioned.




-tINY

[crosscutred]

I'm a big fan of the old jbl eon 15.
Passive only though, very easy to blow the active ones.
I've not tried the new ones.

I've never heard a mackie that I liked the sound of.... at all. They sound very hard edged to me.

[tINY]

Some of it comes down to taste. I never did like how most 15" woofers interacted with horns without a midrange. Never could get a good balance between direct and reverberant field responses I liked in a live room.

The QSCs are quite nice - I ended up with the CVA-28 because of the superior pattern control.



-tINY

[socanadian]

Thanks for all the info. I am very seriously looking into the QSC's

also wondering what you guys think about Electrovoice?

Thanks