I am seriously thinking of getting myself a pair of these Yamaha DSR112 cabinets to beef up my sound arsenal. Just a few days back, when I brought my trusty Yamaha Stagepas 500 down for a gig, I noticed that it could have been louder. The “oomph” I wanted it to give just was not there. But to be honest, this was for a DJ party and you know how loud DJ parties can get. Anyway, I told myself, gotta get myself a new pair of speakers to handle the bigger events. And my mind fell on these DSR112 active units.
Now. I must say that I am a bit hesitant to pull the trigger on these babies. The reason is that for powered speakers, you need to have two cables per speaker…one is an AC power cable and the other, an XLR balanced cable. You need to have some long power cables should you deploy in a place where there is no electricity outlet to power your speakers. Secondly, instead of speaker cables, you need to have very long XLR cables to send the signal from your mixer to the speakers. I feel one might need about 50 metres per speaker, giving me about 100 metres in total. That is the reason holding me back. But the when I think of passive speakers, I have to carry one mother of an amplifier and long speaker cables. The long speaker cables, that I have. I have lots left over after many an installation and they will all go to rot if I buy powered speakers.
But the thing I like about these powered speakers is that all I need to go down to a gig is with two flightcases…one to hold the speakers and the necessary cables and the other flightcase, a small one, to hold the mixer and the rest of the cables. I might have to buy some power extension reels for the powered speakers and that takes up space when I want to travel and keep my inventory as small as possible when I do so. So there you go. Yet another spanner in the works as I contemplate.
As for these Yamaha DSR112s, you can read up about their specs here. Let us just say the thing that is seriously making me consider them is the fact that the woofers use 3″ voice-coils and that they are able to put forth a peak of 1500 watts. That is peak my friends, not RMS.
As they say…decisions, decisions
