So how about an unbiased shootout, Frank?

One Compact, vs. the HK Nano's in stereo (and mono for a more direct comparison with just one tower), vs. the MAUI 28.

Which is louder, cleaner and has more coverage?

Good question, but isn't the MAUI 11 a fairer comparison?

Too subjective, IMO. Everyone seems to have his or her own likes and dislikes about what they want and hear from a sound system - which is obvious from the various responses on this and other forums. I guess if you had the same keyboard, same song, same everything, and only changed the PA, then posted all the MP3s, everyone could make up their own mind. Of course, not everyone likes country music, so you would have to do this with a dozen genres and a dozen of the most popular onboard instruments, and a dozen different vocals, both with and without vocal harmony.

Just sayin',

Gary

If you can't ask a store owner, who CAN you ask? LOL

You want to make up your own mind, find a store that has all of them... Bit impractical, TBH, though. I'd rather ask someone who has BOTH (or all) side by side.

Bottom line is, it's pretty easy to crank a system until it audibly distorts, then see if another system is louder or quieter by the time IT distorts.

All of these systems are small subs with small speakers on top. Seems a pretty fair comparison, and they all come in at roughly (within a few hundred dollars) the same price.

There's no need to get utterly anal about it. Any music (doesn't matter what, as long as it is balanced) cranked up... Does it get brittle, does the sub flap, does it stay clean at high volumes, does it cover a wider area..? Probably most of us would test the same things in the store ourselves. Most anything made nowadays can sound good up to a certain point. But what many of us would like to know is, where is that point? Which one stays cleaner, longer?

For me, I guess I'll have to drive to Bossier City/Benton, LA and fire up all of Don's systems, plus any others that might want to get together sometime in February and have another Synthzone Jam Session. Sounds reasonable to me, at least. Nothing anal about it - just a neat way to hear all the systems in a large venue, which I believe is the best way to hear them instead of in a music store. Besides, it would be a Hell of a lot more fun, too!

We could do this in Marathon Key, Florida as well, which would be a neat place to have a Saturday Night Synthzone Jam. I know of two outdoor locations where we would have huge audiences and the atmosphere is incredible in late January and early February.



Gary