Trouble is, you start buying different gear for each and every different application, you end up with a ton of gear you use quite seldom...
I'm looking for basically TWO PA's... I already have a big loud system, Mackie SWA1501 powered sub, two Yamaha 15" and horn passive cabs and a Yamaha 2X1000W powered mixer. Covers all but the largest outdoor gigs no problems, full band, you name it.
Now I want ONE more system, to cover everything smaller. I want stereo, and I want decently flat, so my setups into the big flat system sound the same into a SMALL flat system.
SRM150, even two of them, simply can't do that... maybe a powered sub added would be OK, but there's little with the size I want that would work well with the SRM150's, and they don't all clamp together and will be much tougher to move around quickly, compared to the Nano system.
Thing is, I am hearing a lot about VOLUME from these tiny built-ins or Donny's single SRM150 idea, but little about them being flat. Just think in terms of a decent home stereo. OK, you can turn it up, you can turn it down... But the BALANCE doesn't change. You go from a full sub and speakers big PA to the built-ins on any arranger, or something designed for vocals like the SRM, and not only the volume, but the BALANCE changes radically too.
Most of us, when we turn down the volume of our home stereo's, we don't turn down the lows radically as well, and boost the mids a bit! We just turn it down.
I think that's what I'm looking for. I think that's what my clients want. Now, were I to turn up with a middle-y little speaker, maybe they wouldn't complain, but personally, I think they deserve better. And don't forget the pickiest listener in the room!
Me...