ZLX 12P : Excellent at the price range

An excellent speaker at the price range along with the assurance of a great brand like EV. I bought it to use for sometimes as a monitor for the band I am in but also are using it for small duo gigs with drum machine/acoustic guitar / double bass and 2 mics. I am using this as my main PA speaker along with a The box MA120 cheaper monitor on the floor. It sound very good especially compared to the monitor, the detail and width of sound is obvious. It should be as its more than double the price, I'm sure there are much better powered speakers but they also will be double the price of the EV.

As the EV has a built in Limiter it took a while to balance my full mix to not trigger the limiter to kick in on the speaker. Keeping every signal around Unity did the trick in the end, the result though is a good sound but not huge volume. However there is more than enough volume for say a small bar of 100 plus people. I think adding a second top and a sub will give better headroom for volume. I also tried it to playback music from a laptop and then an iphone with great results also a pub DJ would be delighted. The onboard DSP is a great useful feature which lets you select your usage as well as E.Q options available to you.There is a small bit of background hiss at higher volumes but staying below 0db will minimize this to nothing. So in general I'm very happy with it and will be buying a second one soon.