bose panaray ma12?

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Does anyone have experience with bose panaray ma12? It seems to be everything that I am looking for in a PA speaker for my church, except the frequency response cuts off at 12k. I am wondering how this will effect my high end before I buy.
 
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The way this will affect your high end is this:

With no high end beyond 12k, you'll boost the high end heavily when mixing because you won't be able to hear it on those monitors. In other words, you'll be compensating for the lack of high end on the monitors. Then, when you take that mix and listen to it on speakers that have a full frequency range, like practically anything else on the planet, the high end will be SCREAMING.

This is not the way you want to mix. You need at least a somewhat accurate representation of the frequency range from maybe 30hz to 20k. Yes, it won't be flat all the way across that, but you certainly need something above 12k!
 
The question is how will the Bose speakers function in a live setting, not for recording.

In general, Bose likes to present a throughly upscale image even though the speakers they sell are no better than any other manufacturers. There are a bunch of music manufacturers who take this tack in promoting their products and they can be distinguished from the rest of the manufacturers in one way - high prices.

I have the Bose PDF brocure (link) on the flip screen and some of the pseudo-technical jargon is so universal that it could be said of any speaker array. These are vertical columns of ten 2 1/4" speakers, and in the literature Bose says they are 'linear' to 40 feet. For most churches, 40 feet would cover the altar and the first ten rows of pews, leaving the rest of the congregation to deal with the barely distinguishable echoed reflections. Bose has a solution for this though - buy another Panaray MA12 and get extra dispersion at the expense of frequency response. At full retail price, of course.

I could look for an alternative, but that's your job if you've been put in charge of buying something for your church. My advice is that you do a thorough search before plunking down the big coin that Bose wants for their mediocre systems.
 
ssscientist said:
The question is how will the Bose speakers function in a live setting, not for recording.
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He edited his post after I responded and changed the question. The business about it being for a church PA system was not there before.

I agree with you that the original poster should do a thorough search before locking into Bose, or any single manufacturer. There's a ton of companies making PA gear, some of it very good and much of it mediocre, as you state.
 
Bose "blose"

my Z had a Bose system in it when i got it and it sounded awful. i took out the speakers, and i can say i've seen cereal boxes that were better constructed. for pro audio use, i wouldn't touch anything Bose with a 10ft pole.
 
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