decent PA speakers for $250 and under

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all up in yo grill!
i havent messed with live recording stuff in a while but a buddy wants to start running open mic nights at a local pub. its one of those places that if it had 60 people it would seem kinda full and would probably be "chest to back" crowded if there was 200. I'm assuming 15s would do the job especially if it goes from being open mic to full band.
 
......mixer will probably be yamaha mg16/4. amp will probably be samson or crown something or other, crossover? (scratches his head) not planning on a subwoofer just yet so lets not go there lol, i have enough sm57s and 58s to work. please note that this is only running acoustic guitar and vocals for the time being. also know that i'm just getting ideas right now. i havent even seen the place yet.
 
The Behringer ones are excellent VFM. I bought a set of Peavey 15" Eurosys 3s because they felt sturdier than the Yamaha SE15s (or whatever they're called). The Yamahas had a warmer sound, the Peaveys more of a snap in the midrange.

EDIT - I should say that I use the Behringer 15" ones all the time as part of my live 'rig' - mainly because they live in someone else's house so I get them to bring them rather than pull my Peaveys out of the attic every weekend!
 
GASP!! DID HE SAY BEHRINGER OUT LOUD!!? PERISH THE THOUGHT! i have no problem with behringer for live stuff.


lol i know what you mean... i moved out of my old place but my bestfriend and his bro still live there and thats where most of my recording equipment, half stack and guitars are. theres a PA there and i thought it would be able to handle anything but we had a house party and brought in one of them young'n bands (you know where no one is over 20 but they all have fake IDs). they rocked out and the PA had a coronary. we had to put a fan at the heatsink that was on the back of the powered mixer. it was funny. so now i i'm thinking more power, not for looks or bragging rights but to survive.
 
Haha ... well I actually use the power amp section of a PMX2000 for my monitors too, so I'm not entirely allergic to Behringer! In fact, depending on how much you have in the way of drums going through, you may find a PMX2000 will do everything you want. I would stick with the MG though, and pick up one of the Behringer power amps, either the 1500 or the 2500.
 
If you haven't heard the speakers made by a little company called CGM, you really need to. They make a basic twelve-and-a-horn box that has the smoothness, phase linearity, and dynamic impact of a high-end speaker, and it goes louder than you'd think it should, and it costs almost nothing, couple hundred bucks.

I've used this speaker (the older version with a larger cabinet) in a church install and even civilians talk about how nice it sounds. Anyone who hasn't heard these really ought to take the opportunity if you ever see them in a shop somewhere. Run a good cd into a good cd player straight into a good power amp (with a volume control on it please!) through some good cables into these speakers. You won't believe it.

Clean, clear, articulate dynamics, minimum boom and kxssss...

www.cgmmusic.com
 
I spoke with a buddie that works at a music store the other day and he said he was very impressed with the CGM's that hilarypaprocki mentioned. $250 is a hard order though.. You might want to look at some carvin 12's with a horn and only run vocals through them.
 
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