On 19/11/2014 09:44, Jim Lesurf wrote:
experience with the PA brands, etc. I've only really noticed Bose
because they sounded so awful to me that I looked to see what crap the
place was using! After a while I could tell in advance from their
'signature' sound. Jim

The audio quality is pretty awful but when I used to help out in my
friends PA business he used them because they were physically tough as
old boots. They could be thrown about in the back of his vans, rained
on, used as workbenches and still manage to produce an output of sorts.
OTOH, one time he left it to me to rig up a Bose system and it turned
out that the client was a singer. She was not at all pleased with the
results, most embarrassing. The SM58 I was provided with didn't exactly
help.

BTW, a bit off topic...as a Btinternet user I'm losing their free Usenet
access at the end of this month. Any suggestions for good free Usenet?
This is the only newsgroup I follow these days and I do enjoy my daily
lurk here over a morning coffee.