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(More customer reviews)I missed having the control of a powered subwoofer, so when this Vocopro went on sale before Christmas I jumped on it. My wife shook her head wondering why I bought it, but even she noticed the difference immediately. I had been using a Panasonic blueray 7.1 surround system with a passive subwoofer. Even on he lowest setting the bass was overly boomy. The variable crossover and volume control makes it very flexible.
I bought the sub mainly to augment a couple of 8 inch Pyle DJ speakers for the occasional music/sound gig I do for a local ski/social club. But once I got the sub unpacked, I found it fit perfectly where the Panasonic sub had been. With only 200 watts and 15 inch driver, it's not a professional DJ sub. But it works well mated to a pair of small cube speakers from the Panasonic system, plus the center channel speaker from the same system. Now I use an older AV Receiver with a sub output in a 3.1 sound system, and it sounds better than ever.
I ended up moving the blueray system to another room, and used the passive subwoofer, 2 more cube speakers, and an extra center channel speaker I had. I don't even use the full range "tower" speakers that came with the system.
I haven't used the subwoofer yet for one of my sound gigs, but I'm pretty sure it will work great. It'll be easy to move given the built in handles and reasonable weight. If I keep using the AV receiver, I'll set it up to send signals < 100 hertz to the sub and over 100 to the Pyle speakers. Even though the Pyles are rated to 50 hertz, I figure they'll sound even better if I don't push them to their limits.
Update: April 9, 2011
Used the Vocopro sub last night with my Panasonic AV receiver and Pyle 8 inch speakers on Pyle Stands. See my review under the PADH879 product. I think the sound was pretty good given it was my first time using this combination. I set the main speakers to "small" and left the subwoofer crossover setting on the receiver at 100 hertz--the lowest available. In a perfect world, it probably would be better to have smaller mains (6 1/2" maybe) with higher minimum frequency range than the 50 hertz minimum on the Pyle 8 inch. There are some sub/satellite speaker packages available in the $500 range that are better matched than my set up. If I did it all over again, that is the way I'd go.
Still, my set up seemed to fit the venue last night. Even though the sound level where I was seemed loud, the level on the dance floor was pretty good. I think you need a certain level of volume and "presense" to envelope the dancers in sound. Maybe it's just me, but I think it feels weird being on the dance floor when the music is too "thin". Despite the ample sound on the dance floor, the level quickly dropped off. This allowed the people at the bar and beyond to hold fairly normal conversations without losing their voices by the end of the evening.
I would highly recommend to small clubs and organizations to invest in their own music systems. It cost our club about $200 to rent a system that was overkill for our venue. A dj usually runs close to $300, and even small bands cost $400 to $650. If your club is like ours, attendance at meetings and even membership levels in general are depressed. I think we had 40 to 45 people last night at $5 a head. With that attendance level, it's tough to breakeven using the rental option. An investment in a small sound system and a volunteer to act as DJ is a viable option.
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