Electro-Voice

[mbandgeek]

Why does people like EV anymore? I think that they have good, reliable, inexpensive products. A lot of my school's EV technology has lasted about 15 years. Is there something that i am missing?

[AVGuyAndy]

Who said they don't like EV?

[PATech]

I happen to like a lot of EV gear. My university's theatre (which I have a job in) has a system of four EV DeltaMax cabs paired into arrays of two along with two McCauley dual 18'' subs.) When you flip one so that they're horn to horn they sound great for the space and have served well for a good chunk of time. We just got four EV cabs to use as stage monitors for dance shows and when time aligned correctly (right now I have the upstage pair set as zero time and the downstage pair and the mains delayed) we are getting great, quality coverage across the stage and the dancers love them because they produce a good thump due to the 15'' low-end drivers. I like EV, but we did just replace the proprietary EV crossovers for the DeltaMax's with a BSS Omnidrive so that we can get some more control over our processing than the old Ashly Protea and proprietary EV crossover processing gave us.

So, I don't know anyone who's said that they don't like EV and I'm definitely a fan of a lot of their gear. There are of course more expensive, better sounding options, but with EV you usually get a lot of bang for the buck.

[avkid]

Originally Posted by mbandgeek

Why does people like EV anymore?

Do you maybe mean why do some people not like E-V anymore?

[soundlight]

E-V makes some great line-arrays and microphones, and their corporate group, Telex, is a great group of pro audio companies. I personally think that they are one of the companies that has been able to achieve everything from the lower-priced to very high-priced and do a good job at all of it. Others that would fall in to that category are Soundcraft, Shure, Yamaha, and Sennheiser.

[avkid]

Originally Posted by soundlight

E-V makes some great line-arrays and microphones, and their corporate group, Telex, is a great group of pro audio companies..

Including: Klark Teknik, Midas, Dynacord and RTS

http://www.telex.com/

[mbandgeek]

Firstly I meant to say

"Why does people not like EV anymore" you seemed to understand what i was saying anyway.

Just in one of the Sound polls that i posted on wireless mics, more people voted on a company other than Electro-Voice.

[AVGuyAndy]

EV was never big on wireless gear. So really no one ever liked EV's wireless gear to begin with.

That being said, they have some great wired mics and speakers.

[avkid]

I'm with Andy on the E-V wireless front, I take a Shure over an E-V wireless any day.

[soundlight]

Wireless: Sennheiser over everything but Shure, and Shure over Sennheiser.