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In Reply to: RE: Pro dj versus vintage posted by Brian Levy on August 22, 2014 at 17:09:27:
Kinda late f/u on this, but anyway..everything went fine at the wedding itself. Really, the Sansui 881 drove these pretty effortlessly, all in all. Here is the long version of my experience, which I will use to defend my denial of payment to the rental company with Visa. It was an interesting lesson for me as well.
I do have concerns about my rental experience. I live 300 miles out of town. I went to the store a month ahead to discuss renting small passive speakers and stands to use with my 2 channel amp, which I have used multiple times for large outdoor parties. We discussed details, including custom cables I would make to match the 1/4 inch jacks on the PA speakers. No problem, the technician said. (We even talked details like gauge of wire for the cables!). I mentioned I needed smaller speakers as the event was a small backyard wedding plus I have a bad back. Again, no problem.
I wanted to reserve the equipment right then but was told just to call the day before the event as they have so much stock in house. Price would be $70.00.
HERE'S where it gets weird. I called 2 days before the wedding, and reminded them who I was and that I wanted to reserve the speakers. I was then told no way could I mate my amp with their speakers safely. I asked what the Db sensitivity was on the speakers ( no answer) and reminded them I had already discussed this. They said, "this is a pro DJ store, not home theater"...anyway, I didn't have time to argue the point so I agreed to rent a mixer, cables, and powered speakers for a new cost of $150.00.
After thinking about it and consulting with sound engineer friends of mine, I realized I didn't want to learn a new mixer, etc while at the wedding, and I knew my amp could handle the job and would sound better, so I called back 24 hours before pickup, and said I was quite sure my equipment would work and could we go back to the original plan?
They said OK, speakers and stands, but now the price would be $140.00, with larger speaker which I did not need, to make up for me canceling the previous order!
I ended up with large 15" two way horn loaded speakers, way bigger than I needed and had to have help from family and friends moving them.
The event went fine, my amp stayed at 3 most of the night, going up to 6 for the later dancing.
I feel like I was punished financially and given a bogus story by World of Stereo.
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
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- RE: Pro dj versus vintage follow up - sanman 08:07:10 09/03/14 (1)
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