RCF PA speakers

[Mr Blues]

I have botht the RCF active speakers the RCF ART series 310-A and the 322a.

They both have there individual characteristics .

Its interesting as I mainly do just vocals and guitar.

The 310-A which has only a 10inch LF and a Inch tweater has more clarity on the vocals although the 322a has more overall bass sound.

I spoke to a sound engineer friend of mine and he told me that 10inch speakers do tend to hold vocals very well.

Has anyone hear also found that to be the case?

Dave

 

[xstatic]

I would agree with that to a certain extent. I think what is more important then the actual driver size is its actual design and the way it was implemented into the speaker system and design. 10" drivers are becoming more and more common in speaker designs lately, at least in high end speakers. Technology has certainly helped acheive higher output with better sysmmetry in smaller and lighter speakers lately. That being said, RCF makes some great drivers.

 

[Alfa1]

Vocal response is interesting

This raises very interesting questions. While there may be no final word of truth I have found that smaller speakers in general can be driven to make vocals stand out like they were the singer itself sometimes. As far as 10 inch speakers go - I sell them - but I would have to say that the ability to convey vocals has a lot of factors - but the main one of interest given your comment from the sound engineer is that 12 inch speakers have much less cone total moving distance - well almost always. I could speculate that the mix of factors that relate to human hearing as well as actual speaker sensitivity based on band scans and not the standard 1000 hz tone tend to favor any small speaker. I have found this effect even in 4 inch speakers, and these had a broad response up to 10 thousand hertz. The 4 inches also did not have the usual paper or aluminum 'dust cap' which in fact is intended to attenuate and muffle the response - and that definitely means less vocal output - how that output sounds to a particular audience and in a given place is another quality issue. I go into extensive details that concern voltage and certain terms used in music reproduction on my website. I didn't see anything banning posting links, so if you need more, visit my virtual audio clinic on the subject at http://www.kenneyaudio.com
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