From: logan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro
Subject: Re: The merits of Power amps!  was: Peavey, etc!
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:18:42 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <5711@gold.gvg.tek.com> chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Chris Christensen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec8.174420.9361@ac.dal.ca> cullen@ac.dal.ca writes:
...
>>its Frank's monitor rack." Lo and behold, 2 CS1200s and a CS800.
>>Using a Bose 802/302 rig, (which, oddly enough works quite well for 
>>folk/celtic/accoustic, although useless for anything else) really pointed 
>>out to me:
>>1: the CS1200 sounds much better than the 800
>>2: They both sound better with DDT off
>>3: The QSC sounds better than both.
>>4: I hate Bose almost as much as Peavey
>
>Oh my! Peaveyphobia and Bosephobia all in one gig!  I see now why you
>are tweeked! I hope you recover from the infection soon,  I'm
>surprised that the hospital let's you log onto the NET.......  :-)

I had Peavey-hate, and I decided to get over it for awhile.  So, when my
church bought a new mixer, I said "Hey, why not go with that Peavey one"
for various reasons, including getting a good deal at a dealer we know.
During the purchase, I felt nervous, since I had knowingly gone along with
the purchase of Peavey equipment.  "It's alright", I told myself, "you'll
get the mixer back to the church, hook up the new system, and it'll work
fine - you'll see."  So, I take all the stuff, start hooking it up, and set
zillions of knobs, and then I turn it all on.

Lo and behold, I noticed that something was being noisy and producing hiss.
So, I took our cheap equalizer out of the signal path, and to my surprise,
the noise was still there.  Where did I eventually determine that the
noise was coming from?  The only Peavey component in the system - the
new mixer.  It's basically o.k. - I can work around it and adjust things
to minimize it.  However, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO.  My Peaveyphobia went into
remission for a few short days, and now it is back.

At that point I became aware of a startling trend - every piece of Peavey
equipment I've ever used has sounded noticeably bad in some way:

(1)  Another of the church's sound systems has a pair of Peavey speakers.
No matter what I do, they just sound bad.

(2)  My roommate has a Peavey keyboard amp.  Even with the levels carefully
set and only his Ensoniq SQ-1 hooked up, I can't get rid of the hum.  Not
to mention the fact that it just doesn't sound very good at all.

(3)  The church has Peavey stage monitors, only we don't use them because
the little attenuator knobs turn freely and continuously instead of only
one turn, and their sound is comparable to the water damaged paper cone
factory installed 4x10" speakers installed my 1980 Oldsmobile.

(4)  Come to think of it, every time I have encountered a Peavey monitor,
it also has sounded very bad.  In fact, I don't think any of the ~10
models of speakers I've judged actually sounded decent.  I've *never*
noticed a speaker sounding pretty decent and then seen the word "Peavey"
on it.

etc...

They way I see it, Peavey is to sound equipment as Sears is to clothing.
Usually, it's cheap and it works, but nobody in their right mind actually
would prefer it if they had a choice.

I have the same basic opinion about Bose, though I don't have very much
personal experience to back that up.  (What I do have has been negative,
of course.)

Adios,
  Logan
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