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HK Audio CTA 118 Sub

Active subwoofer from HK Audio belonging to the Contour Array series

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Published on 08/01/09 at 15:08
Received 3 times on this system, 2 times in the config of the photo, and 1 time with 18''sub Martin and more.

For details:

A festival-1000 people indoors (gymnasium) with sub Martin: Very painfully 93dbA 92 to the control and fortunately I had the martin for the low, the rest was out of breath



-A room of 300 people: 95dbA the governance system of breath



-An outdoor festival with 1000 people on site and existing relatively large at about 25 30 meters: 90 dbA phew 85dBA at max wide governance and a system that can not stand it anymore.



So what to say, well not much except that this system is a disaster. And I just found out the cost: it is simply amazing.



Let's start with the sub: it is soft as can be, no potato and no dynamic filtering relatively high for my taste. So we end up with a spray sound more than a real sub. However it sends strong enough, but it does not. The infrastructure simply does not exist, its frequency "reference" is rather 80HZ 100HZ making mobile disco cons is nice but too bad on the live ...



For heads ale ale, a medium very ugly and very "lumpy", a big worry to 800Hz and 250Hz to another, as the impact is not severe soft

Acute level it seems that a high-cut filter is placed on the system, it does not rise to acute and can there in the system are relatively aggressive and hurt the ears. In short, a disaster on a Hit Hat or on OH.



The processor I think it's the plant that is completely HK, at least for the live. The compressor limiter prevents dynamic sound and sealed as soon as you can fit one in the bazaar. One is left with a sound meaningless and a dynamic close to 0. And every time I played with, that feeling came back, it seems that the system is out of breath and is at the limit of cracked (a small disto installs on top of that) . It's really painful is especially ugly.



Level range say 15 meters every break, after that decent arrow. So for a line array system with 4 boxes (actually 2! Besides, I do not understand these boxes 2 in 1) per side .... it is breathtaking.



To summarize:

A system that does not, a food processor you full dynamic range, tonal balance really bad, no infrastructure, no musicality, it does not ring .... not for the short live.



And strictly (that will explain the mr before!) Incomparable with Nexo Geo, Adamson, Meyer, D & B, acoustic, and very far behind the RCF, Db technology and KME.



In short dear friend (s) technician (ne) s fly touring sound system, providers and dear friends head to something that works =)



Used mainly as you can have much better systems

8 + 4 SX18 SX SUB Adamson Proc + amp for 16,000 euros and the Hk is completely eaten the same level increased. (Though it is a system called trad)



even better 14 Geo S + 6 CD 12 + amp Nexo processor + bumper + Complete Kit for 24000 euros (the HK is behind places in 1000)



Brief prefer buying a good used system and forget the HK because it is really bad

and for me it will now be denied on my sheets (after 3 attempts catastrophic can say that it comes from the system)



I put a lot of sound because it still makes a pretty and light blue on the back.