GX 5 : Amplifier makes all the difference.

I had an opportunity to mix the same band in the same smallish venue with different PA. First we had some JBL loudspeakers on the edge of the stage driven by behringer EPQ series amplifier and I must say I had some serious hassle, bringing the vocals to front without compressing too much. The live effects were also useless, reverb only made it worse.

The other time they had upgraded to 4x QSC GX5 and HK Audio speakers and it was like a day and night. At first we had them on the edge of the stage (also a decent improvement), but i brought my speaker stands with me and took the speakers a bit higher also. This gig went unexpectedly quickly - vocals sounded so massively, but yet so lightly and I had so much headroom left for playing with effects.

Of course this time it was a lot more power behind the band, but i didn't use even half of it. And to be objective, the JBL+Behringer coombination sounded also quite nice while playing music from CD. It even had the parametric EQ. But you can hear and feel the real difference when the real band is playing on the stage!

I would recommend QSC to anyone who's looking for reasonably priced amplifier.