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Have you auditioned them both?, which did YOU prefer? To be honest, both of these are very expensive products costing well into four figures, far too expensive to let others make the final decision for you. Its always easy to spend somebody elses' money, less risks too My advice is that you wouldn't pay four figures for a car without a test drive in it first, so the same would apply here with these speakers, take the time to listen to both for yourself and see what will work for you the best in the type of gigs and venues which you cover.

Hopefully you are speaking as a genuine customer of this business and you've bought one of these items from the Ebay Sennheiser seller that you've actively linked to and had the product which you purchased from them independently verified as a fake?. I only mention it, as if he is a business, and comes across your comments on google and decides to that the comments you have made are false, defamatory or are otherwise untrue, it can get pretty expensive if you are wrong and can't provide any independant proof to defend the comments which you made publicly, if he decided to escalate the matter t

Sadly its also an opinion shared by some clients and members of the public. Its also an opinion sometimes shared by venue managers when they decide to get 'Jack' the Barman to double as a DJ in order to save some money on hiring in their normal resident. Its also an opinion shared by some Newbie Dj's who buy their first set of equipment and think that they are fully fledged, fully experienced Wedding Dj's or think they can host a Karaoke night, when in essence they haven't yet got the experience to do either, nor have they gone out to seek it. In some cases the phrase 'Anybody can DJ

Hi and welcome to DJU :welcome: There are some discussions on these from years gone by, which may be of some help to you in deciding? (Looks like there are about 6 pages worth) If you click on the link below, it will take you to the search page, if you type in UL15 or Peavey UL15 in the top box and then select 'www.dj-forum.co.uk' it will fetch all of the posts and topics where these have been mentioned or discussed. Click here to visit the Forum search engine I'm sure that others will be along to give their advice on this thread too, but in the meantime, enjoy the read

Here is an interesting idea for an experiment. Many people here are also members of non-dj related subject forums covering their other interests, and purely filled with ordinary, everyday non-dj'ing members of the public If permitted within those communities then why not start a discussion / poll in the off topic areas of these forums, asking people to vote or post on how much they feel a Dj is worth and their expectations of a fee, should they wish to book one for a given example function. If different examples are given for each occasion, such as Wedding, Family Function, P

Yep the industry is getting the crap kicked out of it at the moment, and whilst I accept that some areas and markets are doing okay, I also think that many others are still reluctant to shirk off bravado and admit it to the depths of the honesty which you have done, just how bad it is in some places, even though they are / maybe equally affected. We can all join hands, avoid talking about the negatives and think happy-happy thoughts and sing Kumbaya... and hope that things will change (and turn a blind eye to them), but I doubt that they will, and I seriously doubt the rise in popularity

If you read both of the sites that you linked to, then you will know that the facilities offered by these machines far outweigh those offered by a conventional serviced Jukebox. Namely, the Mediatheme offers:- Jukebox / Disco / Bakground Music with 13,000 fully licensed original music tracks Karaoke - Again with over 10k Popular Karaoke Tracks, provided by a well known Karaoke Disc manufacturer used by a lot of KJ's Video Disco - Over 10k Popular Music tracks from different eras with their original videos Racenights - pubs can run their own racenights, whenever they li

So you see the role of a Dj, as being a vehicle purely to increase the revenue of a Pub? Don't other aspects of a Pub, all play a part in its success, and its attraction rather than just its choice of DJ?. A DJ is not a magic pill, if the venue serves crap food, has a reputation for violence or trouble or just has staff which are rude to its customers, I doubt the choice of DJ will make much difference, even if (s)he booked one of the Dj's who constantly wear their underpants over their trousers. There are lots of reasons why a venue may not attract more clientele, even the ones which h

To try and look at these things without any bias and as a tool rather than a threat, I can see that they weren't the brainchild of somebody who was completely anti-Dj and thought it up out of spite as a means to put DJ's out of business, and I can also see many other benefits that this system brings, which we can't possibly provide, any one of which may stand as a good reason for venues to invest in one. I doubt any venue has chosen this system purely to cut us out of the equation, they are also good marketing tools, and playing music is only 1/12th of what these systems provide, so try and lo

Sadly we live in an era of recession and price increases on everything from Fuel to Water, people are more keen to shop around on price and more likely to 'compare the Dj' than perhaps a few years ago when Jobs were slightly more secure, and cash was perhaps a little more on the hip. If the lower end of the market didn't exist, neither would the budget end of our industry thats about as simple and logical as it gets, they exist in order to simply fulfill a public demand, nothing more nothing less. Its the public you need to (re)educate, not the Dj's and I reckon you'll get old, grey and b

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I agree entirely, provided the client knows what they need. Often I find that they want to be advised by the experienced entity that they are talking to, or simply don't give a damn beyond those immortal words 'how much' The danger of giving the client too much responsiblity in critical aspects of rigs, is that they will choose with their wallets rather than their experience or desires, and some clients inevitably end up choosing your cheaper 200w minimalistic set up, and then invite along 500 friends to the large town hall they've booked, and it will be you who looks unprofessional when

I've had clients asking me to avoid using too much Disco Lighting before now, prefering to just have colour changers or ambient uplighting, rather than dancefloor type DMX effects. For a while, the 'subtle' lighting approach was pretty popular amongst my client base during Summer 2009 weddings. But i've never had a client mention a minimum of equipment. In rural Derbyshire, a minimalistic approach is often dictated by the size of the venue. Quaint 17th century halls and olde world inns might be loved by American tourists, but they are a real pain to work in with lighting rigs, having unev

Well, if it works, chances are the additional work that you get from it will outweigh the cost of the freebie that you do from the prize draw. Sure it can sometimes backfire, and you have to honour the prize, but even so, you could spend a similar amount as the cost to you of attending a 'free' gig on a nice advert and also get zero results. You also have to maximise the potential of it, so make sure you get their contact details on the entry ticket, so that you can follow it up with a phone call to all enterants shortly after you actually do the draw. You can legitimately do this on the

Pretty much the same as paying to advertise in the local paper then?, or the Yellow Pages? or a Wedding Directory? or a DJ comparison site? - they take your money and nothing is guaranteed?. Tell me the methods of advertising that are? At the end of the day, if somebody recommends you, and the person actually rings you, then they have done their job and earned their 'commission' - its not their fault that you didn't manage to hook the client and secure the booking If you pay to reply to a requirement on Goodparty and the client never gets back to you, do you get the fee back?. Didn