Vquestor....I'm only good for 2 of the 4

I have personnaly listened to the mackies and JBL's in a banquet hall setting. Big hall, 300-700 people. The Mackies are top notch. In fact the DJ running the JBL's was in the process of trading his in for the Mackies. JBL's sounded pretty good to me, not as crisp and didn't appear to have the fullness and Umph (is that a technical term?)
I think they're fine though. Uncle Dave had mentioned in another thread somewhere that he had either experienced or new someone that had an overheating problem with the powered Mackies. I know a couple of guys up here who use them and they haven't had that problem. Anyhow, that's my limited 2 cents.
I believe Scott Yee, Uncle Dave and DonM like the EV series speakers. I'm sure they'll be here in a while to give you the professional slant along with the other members of this forum. Ain't this peachy? this is like the worlds biggest, most in-expensive search engine...ask one question and in hours, you're full up...Good Luck!!

Brian