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Monoprice Stage Right Series, 15-Inch Powered Speaker, 1400W, SRD215, Class D Amp, DSP, Bluetooth Streaming $169

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Model: Monoprice Stage Right Series, 15-Inch Powered Speaker, 1400W, SRD215, Class D Amp, DSP, Bluetooth Streaming

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02-10-2024 at 11:14 AM.
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These pack quite a lot of bang for the buck. I helped a family member setup a simple karaoke rig in his shop/bar/entertaining space using this model and the sound is very nice.
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02-11-2024 at 09:36 AM.
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Quote from MX5Ken :
These pack quite a lot of bang for the buck. I helped a family member setup a simple karaoke rig in his shop/bar/entertaining space using this model and the sound is very nice.
Not sure why anyone would down vote my first comment...but I side by side compared the Monoprice speakers with another similar "good value-to-performance" speaker, the Samson RS115a. The Monoprices were the noticeably better overall speakers imo. They had more clarity, especially in the highs. The bass was less muddy and mids were clean without the "chesty" bloat you can get sometimes with 2-ways running a large 12" or 15" woofer. Overall they seemed like a good step up in quality versus the Samsons even though the Monoprices were cheaper(this was back in 2022). I personally own some 12" Mackie HD1221's that cost quite a bit more than the monoprices do and though the Mackie's sound is superior...it's not a night and day difference with clarity at very high spl's being the noticeable advantage for the Mackie's.

Again I installed the monoprices in a simple karaoke/music system being used in a large multi-use out building. The space is part vehicle workshop and the rest is setup as a bar/lounge/man cave.

This was an extremely simple budget system consisting of a Gemini GEM-12usb mixer along with Vegue wireless mics for karaoke.
Source material for karaoke is audio out from his tv via rca cables into the GEM-12 as he mostly uses youtube for his karaoke songs(I was surprised that yt had such a large karaoke library)
He also has a karaoke dvd/cd player which is rarely used(thanks to yt).
It's nothing fancy but everyone has a hoot during big get togethers.Smilie
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02-11-2024 at 10:00 AM.
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Usually, you can get the same deal at the same price directly from Monoprice with coupon. That way you can use some cash back offers if you have it.

Thoughts on using a pair of these for movies?
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02-12-2024 at 07:37 AM.
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Might be a dumb question. But do these have low volume settings? Guitar amps start at "police eta: 21 minutes" on their lowest settings so I'm looking for my usual build of using an awesome home setup for all my music gear. I need to be able to turn it down around 20 minutes so I can hear them arrive
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02-12-2024 at 08:05 AM.
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Quote from MX5Ken :
I helped a family member setup a simple karaoke rig
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from his tv via rca cables into the GEM-12
That's awesome, thanks, this is exactly what I need. Do I have to have that mixer though, what does it do?
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02-12-2024 at 12:27 PM.
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That's awesome, thanks, this is exactly what I need. Do I have to have that mixer though, what does it do?
Depends how you want to use the speaker. The speaker has line level and blue tooth inputs so if your only going to plug in a single source to the speaker you probably won't need a mixer.

What an external mixer allows is for you to input multiple sources such as microphones, cd player,etc and allows you to "mix" these various signals together to send out to the speakers. The mixer allows you to adjust the various signal levels, tone, effects levels etc individually to get the sound balance the way you want.

For instance...say you have a singer on one mic, an electric guitar, and a bass that you want to come through your speakers...you will plug those 3 signals into the mixer which will allow you to adjust each inputs volume, tone , effects levels etc so you get the sound and tone you want.
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02-12-2024 at 12:40 PM.
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Quote from poorgrad :
Usually, you can get the same deal at the same price directly from Monoprice with coupon. That way you can use some cash back offers if you have it.

Thoughts on using a pair of these for movies?
The problem is Monoprice "sitewide" coupons now often do not include these. Back in 2022 when we bought ours their sitewide coupons were just that...sitewide.

As for using in a home theater...they'd probably do quite well. Just keep in mind that even though these have 15's in them, don't expect deep "lfe" bass. This is typical for most pro-sound speakers...heck...even large pro-sound subs do not dig down into the very low frequencies(30hz and lower). With the typical 80hz high-pass crossover point used in most home theater processors these should work well with plenty of mid-bass thump and more than enough spl capabilities in even large theater rooms. I installed them in a roughly 24'x-36' open shop/building and two speakers can get very loud in there.
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02-12-2024 at 01:00 PM.
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Might be a dumb question. But do these have low volume settings? Guitar amps start at "police eta: 21 minutes" on their lowest settings so I'm looking for my usual build of using an awesome home setup for all my music gear. I need to be able to turn it down around 20 minutes so I can hear them arrive
These should work like most any other blue tooth powered speakers so in theory you may be able to control the volume with your phone. We have used the blue tooth input on the outboard mixer but since the speakers are wired to the mixer I have zero experience with the blue tooth interface built into the speakers themselves...sorry.
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02-12-2024 at 04:50 PM.
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Quote from MX5Ken :
These should work like most any other blue tooth powered speakers so in theory you may be able to control the volume with your phone. We have used the blue tooth input on the outboard mixer but since the speakers are wired to the mixer I have zero experience with the blue tooth interface built into the speakers themselves...sorry.

I'm definitely not gonna use it for Bluetooth. I'm talking about plugging instruments pretty much direct to it.
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02-12-2024 at 10:52 PM.
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Quote from MrShawn :
Might be a dumb question. But do these have low volume settings? Guitar amps start at "police eta: 21 minutes" on their lowest settings so I'm looking for my usual build of using an awesome home setup for all my music gear. I need to be able to turn it down around 20 minutes so I can hear them arrive
These are pretty large, 44 pounds per speaker, 16.1 x 19.3 x 29.9 inches. If you are just going to use them indoors in your house I would personally get something smaller. These are PA speakers with 15" woofers not like mixing speakers.
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I'm definitely not gonna use it for Bluetooth. I'm talking about plugging instruments pretty much direct to it.
I'm not really sure what your first post was asking but if your asking about volume control on the speakers themselves...yes there are a level knobs on each of the two inputs that adjusts their output volume. The built-in dsp has presets that can shape the sound somewhat as well.

Now if your asking how they sound at lower volumes vs wall shaking levels...they are not bad at all. The family member I installed them for often uses them for just normal tv watching to boost the sound quality compared to what comes from the tv's speakers. So no...these don't have to run at "blow your hair back" levels to sound good. But like most speakers...you will need a bit of volume to "feel" the bass...again...that's true with most speaker systems unless you heavily boost the low end with an EQ.

Also...the internal mixer can only handle two inputs(A & B) so if your going to be needing to directly input more than two instruments, microphones, etc. your going to need an outboard mixer.
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02-13-2024 at 08:39 AM.
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Quote from MX5Ken :
I'm not really sure what your first post was asking but if your asking about volume control on the speakers themselves...yes there are a level knobs on each of the two inputs that adjusts their output volume. The built-in dsp has presets that can shape the sound somewhat as well.

Now if your asking how they sound at lower volumes vs wall shaking levels...they are not bad at all. The family member I installed them for often uses them for just normal tv watching to boost the sound quality compared to what comes from the tv's speakers. So no...these don't have to run at "blow your hair back" levels to sound good. But like most speakers...you will need a bit of volume to "feel" the bass...again...that's true with most speaker systems unless you heavily boost the low end with an EQ.

Also...the internal mixer can only handle two inputs(A & B) so if your going to be needing to directly input more than two instruments, microphones, etc. your going to need an outboard mixer.

I was simply asking if you can get low volumes. On "real" guitar cabinets 0.01-5% volume is nothing an
6% - 100% is too loud for a house. I don't recall my old PA settings because I never had a house during those years so it was always to turn it up loud. So I was making sure that it's only guitar an bass amps that do the stupid loud volume only thing
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02-13-2024 at 11:27 AM.
02-13-2024 at 11:27 AM.
Quote from MrShawn :
I was simply asking if you can get low volumes. On "real" guitar cabinets 0.01-5% volume is nothing an
6% - 100% is too loud for a house. I don't recall my old PA settings because I never had a house during those years so it was always to turn it up loud. So I was making sure that it's only guitar an bass amps that do the stupid loud volume only thing
Gotcha...so I'd say yes...you don't need to run these at "11" all the time for them to sound good.
I do not play guitar but, funny enough my mom did, so I have been around guitar amps quite a bit and your right...volume and gain knobs on some amps basically work more like an on/off switch...either you get ALL the sound or hardly any. Wink
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