Chuck Van Eekelen

To add to Terry’s comments, using a tweeter opening as bass-reflex port is a really bad idea.

Port-tuning is higher math. The where, the size of the opening, the shape of the port, the length of the port all play a part in providing exactly the right back-pressure for the sub-speaker.

As for the differences between sub and full-range:
1) Subs will have/need crossover filter with very low x-over, typically 125Hz max.
2) Subs will play down to lower frequencies (as far down as mid 20’s on pro PA systems at events)
3) Subs are constructed differently as the enormous forces produced by the speakers cause quite a bit of reverberation and such in the enclosure.
4) Subs need loads of amp power as moving the amount of air at low frequencies takes lots of energy.
5) The driver in a sub is usually tuned to a very narrow frequency range (i.e. 30-150Hz), will have a different/larger magnet and voice-coil and often different cone and cone-rim attachment. All to be able to handle the heavy load. The low end driver in a full-range speaker will usually not go much lower than 50Hz (sometimes even higher than that) and it will cover a wider frequency range (in a 2-way speaker up to 1.5KHz for example), making it less suitable for the ultra-lows a sub is aiming at.

Hope that helps some.

This entire discussion hinges on everything being syncable. It it were, then there would be no choice-limitation. But it’s utopia to assume a 100% syncability rate is achievable. If you can cover that by doing the occassional manual beatmix, again there are no limitations.

It’s only when you are limiting your track choice to those tracks that can be synced and thus leaving out a part of the available options, that I think relying on sync becomes an issue.

Also, it often takes some serious prep work to get beatgrids just right. This is also a skill and a bit of work. I have no problem with reaping the fruits of that skill and work by using the resulting tracks in synced mode.

Frankly, you should let only a limited number of tracks into your collection each month. And at that number, buying is still cheaper than a service. Bonus is that having to pay for each track actually helps you make choices instead of falling into the digital DJ’s trap of collecting as much music as possible.

Just my 3 cents as usual.

Hi Neil, welcome to the forums. You’ve come to the right place. Look forward to your input and whatever questions you might have.

Enjoy your time here!

Yeah RCA to RCA would work. Don’t go too far though. Up to 2 meters should be fine.

The TRS as not much use for you as your Mixtrack Pro 2 has no TRS outputs.

My personal experience you can play just about anything at mobile events, provided it “fits”. This is clearly a slow dancing song, so you’d have to pack it properly. I am not sure if I’d go through the trouble for this particular song, but then I wouldn’t for 99% of slow dancing songs as slow dancing seems to have “died” altogether here, where is was a once-an-hour thing back in the day.

But I have played Hooked On Classics: Waltzes for example with great success, but only because it just fit the night perfectly. On another night it might have just gotten me a lot of funny looks, head-shaking, shoulder-shrugging and people heading for the bar.

So, personally I’d keep this one in my listen to at home pile (well not me, as I am not particularly fond of this music movie stuff, so you in this case LOL) as it most likely will never become a mainstay track in your collection/sets.

Just my three cents as usual.

While I’ll second Lorie’s concern about the quality of the speakers, I have to disagree with the observation that the amp has no aux-in/RCA.

The systems is 2.1, meaning two satellite speakers and one subwoofer. The 4th box is the amp/cd player/tuner/etx.

According to the LG website:

In/Outputs:
USB 2
Portable In Yes
AUX In (L/R) Yes (1)
Speaker Out System Jack
FM Radio Antenna Yes

So, yes to AUX In. And in the picture showing the back of all 4 units (like in the link in the OP), you can see the relevant RCA connectors to the right of the antennae connector.