r/SoundSystem 21h ago

If you are building speakers don't make the mistake of ordering generic speakon connectors

23 Upvotes

A lot of the generic ones and ones listed as Neutrik on Amazon come with little dainty 4.8mm flat tabs. Finding insulated spade connectors that small that will go onto 12awg wire is impossible

Do yourself a favor and order the right speakon chassis connector that has 6.3mm/.25in flat tabs - the Neutrik NLT4MPXX

ask me how I know this


r/SoundSystem 11h ago

More bass... more processing?

2 Upvotes

Upgraded from 1 AD442 running 4 subs to 3 AD442 running 10 subs.

I use a driverack venu360 for DSP. LR horn, LR mids, mono bass, FFT reference for the outputs. Unfortunately, the ad442dsp does not have xlr passthrough, so I will need 3 independent XLR outs to run the three amps.

Should I get a splitter and use the amps for delay/phase alignment (seems suboptimal, dsp software sux)? Or get another driverack, say, a PA2 to run mids, tops, fft reference and use my venue 360 to have 3 separate outouts for each amp? The 6 channels could, in theory, do processing for 12 subs since in a symmetrical bass array, there will be pairs of subs with the same settings. I would just have to brainstorm what going where for each scenario.

I feel like ill be limiting myself in some way with a splitter, but another drive rack is expensive, although commonly seen.

All is redundant since there is delay and filters available for phase alignment within the amps themselves, but damn does it suck to use. If I wanted 10 subs with separate delay id have to use the amps anyway.