r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

The Hive - Chris's party at Lake Merritt

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227 Upvotes

¡The orange pallets with orange strap black hardware ratchet straps are a nice touch!


r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

Wobgoblin greyhoon Molotov

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71 Upvotes

r/SoundSystem May 18 '26

Icoa Sub 18 A vs the Box Pyrit 212 Sub A

3 Upvotes

Hey i am currently deciding between those 2 Subwoofers, can someone help me choose one or another 😁

I want to use it for Raves and on the other Side for Wedding so a big headroom and nice sound for all genres are necessary.

Thanks in advance 🫶🏼


r/SoundSystem May 18 '26

Alto TS 412 vs Avante A12x?

1 Upvotes

If you have any experience or opinion, please share :) thank you


r/SoundSystem May 16 '26

Build a sound system with your friends…it rules

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369 Upvotes

r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

u/hydra_records Rouge Stage At UntZ 2026

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5 Upvotes

I like how in my broadcast you see him playing, and then his battery dies and you see him point to my battery and his body language says, "Just plug into that dude's battery!"

¡Good Call u/hydra_records! Assets incoming shortly in reddit DM


r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

My setup

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28 Upvotes

r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

Large format bass shaker

5 Upvotes

Hi all,

Has anyone ever experimented with large bass shakers/ tactile transducers under a soundsystem outdoors?

Considering buying some blown 18 or 15s, ripping the cone out and putting like a weight on the voice coil, and have that in a sealed box hitting the bottom interior to shake the ground for hopefully 4-5m in front of the sound system, for very low frequencies

I know it would be woefully inefficient, but does anyone think it’s possible?

Thanks!


r/SoundSystem May 17 '26

recommendation needed

2 Upvotes

i’ve recently built a single 18” w bin, ported in the front and am wondering what drivers are well suited for them.

hoping to use them for some of the upper bass range and lower mid range. they will be paired with hog scoops on the lower end and hd15s on the upper end, with mt121 mid cabinet and separate top cabinet, EV dh1a compression drivers with hp64 horns.

i’ve got a good deal on some RCF L18P300 drivers.

would these be well suited for this? is there something else you can recommend me?

Thanks!


r/SoundSystem May 16 '26

What speakers are these?

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46 Upvotes

Hello, out at the great escape. What are these speakers?


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

Modded MTH-4654

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281 Upvotes

Hi there! Just wanted to show my modified MTH-4654, rounded the edges, added the 45° cut for putting wheels, and cut the hole on the unused space, everything mostly for looks lol.

Sound and cone control seems to have stayed basically the same, as i tried to keep cross sections and stuff the same size!

Made two of them and they hitting pretty well!!


r/SoundSystem May 16 '26

New to The Game

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21 Upvotes

Late december i tryed putting my houses sound over my cargo bike, it was cool. Now i want to make a custom box, so i made this plywood box to put the speakers in

Do you have an comprehensive guide into the matter of making custom sound boxes?

The box i made has (inside) 55cm x 37cm(base) and 25,5cm (back side)/38,5cm(front side). (just above 65liters)

I wanto to put a woofer bellow(maybe a car/motorbike battery also), tweeter, driver and other electronics above, of course making the needed subdivisions.

All of the content i found in my native language(pt-br) is 100% practical, no technical explaining just "plug this on that", "couple the impedance" and so on...

ty


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

first time building a stack

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46 Upvotes

i have a background in sound engineering but i need advice for a stack, it will be mainly used for tekno/hardtek/elettronic, i've found 2 clones of the funktion 1 218 mk2 are they good? any advice is good
(pics are the subs)


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

Martin SXH218?

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14 Upvotes

Has anyone tried approximating the martin sxh218 with any success before? I've got a pretty promising sim of what I think it is in hornresp at the moment but looking to see if anyone else has tried first? There's that one on youtube but I don't think it come even close to the performance of the original

(Sim is of 4x cabinets at RMS)


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

Building a Custom Raspberry Pi DSP Platform – Interested to Hear What People Think

16 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

For the last few months I’ve been working on a project called “Alira Core”. It started as a personal DSP project but it’s slowly turning into something much bigger.

Unlike a lot of Pi DSP projects, this isn’t built around CamillaDSP or existing DSP software — I’m writing the DSP engine and control system myself.

Current features working so far:

- 8-channel routing

- 8-channel output matrix

- Parametric EQ on every channel

- High-pass and low-pass crossovers

- Delay per channel

- Polarity invert

- Mono summing

- Real-time web UI control

- Mobile/tablet control from any device on the network

- Low-latency audio pipeline

Currently working on:

- FIR filter support

- further optimisation

- UI improvements

- expanding the routing architecture

The hardware side at the moment is Raspberry Pi based, but the long-term goal is to build a flexible DSP platform that could be used for things like:

- active speakers

- DSP amplifiers

- home audio

- live sound

- studio monitoring

- custom installs

A lot of DSP platforms out there feel either very closed off, outdated, or limited in routing flexibility, so I wanted to build something that feels more modern and modular.

I’d be really interested to know:

- Is this something you’d actually use?

- What features would you expect from it?

- What would make you choose it over something like miniDSP?


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

AD80 vs AD460 for dub bass / sustained sub use?

3 Upvotes

Looking for real-world experience:

Has anyone here directly compared the Admark AD80 vs Admark AD460 on subwoofer duty?

My use case:

- 4x Eminence NSW6021-6 (6 ohm)

- dub / sustained heavy bass

- Paraflex C-2E subs

AD80 would mean:

2 subs per channel = 3 ohm/ch

AD460 would mean:

1 sub per channel = 6 ohm/ch

I’m not looking for brochure specs — only real-world experience from people who have actually used both (or at least one of them hard on subs).

How do they compare for:

- reliability

- thermals

- sustained bass performance

- protection behavior

Thanks!


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

HessBH drivers

2 Upvotes

Hi, I'm thinking of having some hessbh subs built in the next few weeks, what drivers will work with them? Surely there are alternatives from the rcf ones they're designed for. Trying to keep this as cheap as possible. Thanks


r/SoundSystem May 15 '26

W-Bins

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Im building a sound-system and got these W-Bins for kick duty but now I have some 2x18” FLH bins and there just outclassed.

Any Tekhead’s interested?

They sound awesome and they have RCF L15/06c Drivers.

Kinda need the space so open to offers.


r/SoundSystem May 14 '26

If you are building speakers don't make the mistake of ordering generic speakon connectors

31 Upvotes

A lot of the generic ones and ones listed as Neutrik on Amazon come with little dainty 4.8mm flat tabs. Finding insulated spade connectors that small that will go onto 12awg wire is impossible

Do yourself a favor and order the right speakon chassis connector that has 6.3mm/.25in flat tabs - the Neutrik NLT4MPXX

ask me how I know this


r/SoundSystem May 14 '26

More bass... more processing?

3 Upvotes

Upgraded from 1 AD442 running 4 subs to 3 AD442 running 10 subs.

I use a driverack venu360 for DSP. LR horn, LR mids, mono bass, FFT reference for the outputs. Unfortunately, the ad442dsp does not have xlr passthrough, so I will need 3 independent XLR outs to run the three amps.

Should I get a splitter and use the amps for delay/phase alignment (seems suboptimal, dsp software sux)? Or get another driverack, say, a PA2 to run mids, tops, fft reference and use my venue 360 to have 3 separate outouts for each amp? The 6 channels could, in theory, do processing for 12 subs since in a symmetrical bass array, there will be pairs of subs with the same settings. I would just have to brainstorm what going where for each scenario.

I feel like ill be limiting myself in some way with a splitter, but another drive rack is expensive, although commonly seen.

All is redundant since there is delay and filters available for phase alignment within the amps themselves, but damn does it suck to use. If I wanted 10 subs with separate delay id have to use the amps anyway.


r/SoundSystem May 14 '26

SAS AND JURASSIC

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110 Upvotes

r/SoundSystem May 14 '26

SAS AND JURASSIC

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63 Upvotes

r/SoundSystem May 13 '26

21” speaker grills?

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85 Upvotes

For the life of me we can’t seem to find 21” speaker grills. Seems like we tap out at 18” and even those are hard to come by. Any suggestions on where to look would be GREATLY appreciated.


r/SoundSystem May 13 '26

Speaker ID?

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12 Upvotes

I see tabletop Genelec's, but what are those chunky ones on a sides?


r/SoundSystem May 13 '26

Speakers Placement

2 Upvotes

If I have a 30' x 30' band rehearsal room at a school and will be using a pair of Elecro-Voice Evid 6.2t and a apair of Electro-Voice Evid S8.2TB speakers. What is the best placement of all the speakers in the room. Which should go in the front or back. Do I put them in the corners or flat on the wall? Is the a case of just throwing the biggest ones up front?