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Old 12-12-2020, 06:08 PM
Kal Rubinson Kal Rubinson is offline
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Originally Posted by Petronius View Post
At one time Motown was monitoring with a system that used 4 JBL D130's per side and were tuned in such a way that they delivered a peak at around 100 Hz and shook the building!
At one point they were using the AR 3a. Unfortunately The AR's were not up to the challenge and would barely last a week before they would go through a woofer or most often the midrange. AR would gladly sent new ones as they were happy to be able to say that the 3a was being used as a studio monitor.
Given what must have been a truly substantial difference in sensitivity, the power amps might have been clipping viciously with the ARs.
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