I have just purchased a Skytec SPA 1200 active speaker with VHF microphone.
I have not spent much time touching or hearing speakers. I am impressed with the build of the speaker. The pots are stiff not sloppy which I have seen complaints made about for other brands. I have touched a Behringer speaker and noted the pots on this speaker were loose.
The unit I have is 12″ mid/bass. I have only tested in a large household lounge and have been impressed with sound quality. The sound level seemed low and nowhere near the stated 300 watts RMS (600watt) peak.
I investigated the poor sound level. I am playing out of a Dell laptop and use Helium music manager. It appears that most laptops have low line level output via headphone socket. I think I have solved this by using a sound enhancer, which increases the sound output from laptop by about 100%. After boosting the signal I think I could achieve 300 watt RMS.
The Skytec speaker has excellent control for volume, a line-in level control and effective base and treble controls.
I bought this speaker from DJ City in Melbourne, Australia for AUD $169.
I will be using the speaker weekly to play music at Nursing Homes, so I guess lack of loudness would not really be an issue. But from time to time I might need to turn it up and are now confident I can get pretty loud.
So for me now the Skytec is vgreat value.
