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Shure Vocal Masters for center channel :P

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I recently picked up a pair of Shure Vocal Masters someone gave me who used to be in a band and used them for PA. They are REALLY unique speakers, using six drivers mounted in a 5 foot five verticle column. I don't have a good center channel speaker and I might have some fun with them. If the center was strictly for dialouge at all times I believe it would actually work all right. i think they're frequency range and voicing is intentionally inferior to "normal" speakers as they really were intended for vocals in a PA system.

What do you guys think?

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I've used those, and they're awful. They'll make loud noise, but you won't like it. They were actually part of a set that included a 6 channel tube-powered mixer. I still have the old mixer.

Good PA gear doesn't sound worse than good home audio stuff or have the high frequencies rolled off, although it tends to be designed with different goals. (i.e. you might not want a pair of KF850's in you're living room as they'll lose coherency inside of 15 feet or so, but in the right space they're great speakers) These were cheapo even when they were new, although that type of "column" speaker had some popularity for a while for venues looking for PA systems that were cheap and loud but didn't need to sound great for music reproduction. (churches, high schools, garage bands) Peavey had some speakers that were very similar with 4 12" woofers and a compression driver. Even today you'll find big cheap speakers designed for a similar crowd. The speakers I linked sound like crap too. Now it's possible that if you need to fill a large space with dialog only (i.e. you need louder rather than better) then maybe such a speaker could yield satisfactory results, but I kind of doubt those particular speakers could accomplish even that. Sorry to be a downer...
post #3 of 5
My gawd, no. Just... no.

It will make your HT sound like the high school PA from 1960.
post #4 of 5
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Ahahahahah I knew this idea wouldn't get much support. LOL rdclark. Yeah I noticed their sound quality isn't too *great* lol. And actually I do have a large space to fill and my HT is more of a fun have some friends over thing than a serious sound quality thing. Most of the idiots i have over wouldn't know the difference anyway. No matter what I used, if the first movie I played had the deep note (THX sound) and it was loud they'd be like "wow it's even like being in the theater".

One of my other experiments/contraptions are setting up surround arrays like a large theater. That thread is easy to find. Just Google surround array(s).


BTW on the Peavy's they boast a "2 3/8 inch voice coil" lol a size I've never heard of and a size that is small for 15 inch woofers. Very small. Dynaudio uses 4 inch voice coils on small studio monitors. They call them 10s but my school (college) used them and they were 9s. End of story; BM15A's.
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Originally Posted by RCA Dimensia View Post

BTW on the Peavy's they boast a "2 3/8 inch voice coil" lol a size I've never heard of and a size that is small for 15 inch woofers. Very small. Dynaudio uses 4 inch voice coils on small studio monitors.



Yeah, they're crap, but I guess that should be expected from something so cheap. That is comically small for a 15" woofer though. The EAW's I referenced above have a larger voice coil on the compression driver. (which is 112db efficient and rated for sustained output levels of 135db and peaks of 141db )
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