Okay, I realise that this question may give rise to a number of different opinions, but here goes:-

I have two pairs of the Soundlab Blue speakers with 5 tweeters, a horn and a 15 inch cone with two ports in each cabinet. Due to the high frequency bias of Soundlab one pair of the speakers have had the tweeters and cones disconnected to try and give more of a mid/bass sound in those cabinets. However, the bass overall is there but not as punchy as I would like or as well defined.

I toyed with buying a pair of bass 15 inch cones from ebay and replacing the current ones in the non-tweetered cabinets to try and give me that little bit extra sound - since I have the cabinets, it seems pointless starting all over again. Therefore, my questions are as follows:-

1] What frequency range should I be looking for to confirm that what is advertised as a bass cone really is a bass cone?

2] what would I need to do to get that punchy sound, the sort you can feel as you walk past them?

3] Does anyone have any recommendations on this one that they have used themselves?

Thanks everyone,

Aaron

I reckon most people are going to recommend a weightier, more serious speaker than the soundlabs.

Bass response is down to a combination of cabinet and driver - neither one alone will be any good, and the two must be selected to work properly together.

I doubt changing the drivers will result in much, if any, improvement, as the port tuning will almost certainly be wrong, and probably the cabinets are too small to produce serious bass anyhow.

To get what you seem to want you are going to have to buy bigger cabinets and decent drivers. Sorry if that doesn't help much, but it's a fact of physics.

What might be your best choice is to get an active crossover and use the soundlabs as the mid/tops and add some bass bins/subs to augment them. When people say they want more punch it usually means they want more bass they can hear/feel. as Andy says, you won't get much of an improvement by changing the drivers as the box is likely all wrong.

I could recommend some proven solutions but it comes at a cost. Thats the thing with pro audio - it s rare to find something great for not much money. Its cheap for a reason. I don't have a single driver in my system that cost less than £100 (even my supertweeters were £150+) but you just don't get what you need from the eminence's of this world.

I'm with Andy W on this one. You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.

What has been said allready, i very much agree with, but in your situation with it being for a youth club, i see your situation!

Try putting 15" Skytronic 250w rms 500 peak bass drivers in them. These seem to be very bassy, even when fitted in a shallow cabinets. I use them in my Alto ELV15's, as i was unable to get hold of a replacment driver which they come fitted with from the manufacturer. But Obviously, you could do with a better cabinet really!

Hope that helps