the box MA100 4-stars Reviews

I bought this a practice drum amp.

With an adapter it works great!

it's a bit quiet, but that's fine for practice.

It would be better if it had handles. It's quite hard to move around and it's pretty heavy.

Good Monitor speaker for acoustic bands (not for a loud rock band)

I bought these monitors and they sound ok, but they are not good enough for a loud rock band, you will need at least 300w or even better 600w. But if you are playing in an acoustic band you will be ok with these speakers.

Great product

I use it as a monitor in our rehearsal studio, great sound for that price range. I've used it as a stage monitor too. The only drawback is that it doesn't have a grip to move it easily, a feature only available in the next models

A lot for your money

To be fair I will not use a lot but it does exactly what I need it to

good value for the price

No carry handle, but heavy enough that it feels like it needs one.

private use

bought for my boy, to play at home. I satisfied with sound and control possibility. no handles, difficult to carry.

Some very small issues

the main one being no handle! This means two trips to the van while loading and unloading.

for the price you cant go wrong they have a very slight hiss but not enough for anyone to complain about.....yet!

The fact that you plug a microphone into a socket labelled microphone and a line input into a socket labelled line input is a lot better than a small switch hidden at the back of the unit that can easily be missed, it makes it a lot easier for me to send this out with non techie musicians and they are able to figure out what plugs in where. I mainly use these as wedge monitors on stage, but they have coped well as front of house at a couple of small (100-120 people) gigs

Great sound, almost great construction

While sounding way better than you'd expect at this price there are some obvious drawbacks.

The speakers perform great at almost any volume, no distortion when they are put to the test. They work well in both monitoring use as well as being used as active speakers at smaller venues (although the front-mounted input-output panel looks a bit awkward in that context).

HOWEVER, handling these kind of heavy pieces are everything but a blessing. No handles whatsoever, and the stackable corners just feels wiggley like an egg in a frying pan.

Still a really good buy, if you can live with the mentioned drawbacks.

Impressed

Not a lot of money but very impressed with the performance. For big gigs you need bigger monitors, but for small, semi acoustic concerts, and as a personal monitor, this was ideal. Nice warm sound from the 10".

The Box MA100

Handling is not too difficult as they only weigh about 30lbs but a carrying handle would have been useful. Very handy having tone controls on the amp just in case they are needed. The sound is pretty good and plenty loud enough for our acoustic band. Quality of build appears pretty robust and the front grill is very sturdy. Amazing value for money.

No Handle, Little bass, Not bad though...

We have recently replaced these (we have 2) with some Wharfedales EVPs which are brilliant. Anyway the Box MA100s aren't bad little things. We have used them extensively for nearly 2 years. The problem we had was that they dont really produce bass. So the sound gets very muffled very quickly unless you cut all bass frequencies out. I would say that these would be good for an open mic situation or solo artist in a small venue or for lifting vocals during practice.

As an acoustic band, we now only use them for amplifying vocals during practice. This works quite well for us as the new monitors are big and loud and completely unnecessary for practice. But by lifting the vocals above the other instruments we can practice without straining. I hope this helps.

the box MA100

Great quality mixer brimming with features: mic and line in, speakon connector for extension speaker plus line out to conect to another active mixer. For the price you can't get better than this for an active mixer! Only slight cons are: no carry handle and volume could be louder (it would struggle in a very loud band but fine for quieter or acoustic bands).

Ideal for small band

Having used this product for nearly 6 months i feel that i can meaningfully review it now.

At first glance it looked like a well built and well packed item. When we connected it up it was plenty loud enough, even for our drummer! Even at high volume the sound is clear and clean with no distortion audible.

The ability to 'daisy chain' these units allows for different musicians to have their monitors at different volumes, even if they are sharing a mix. This has allowed us to keep the stage volume a little lower which is all good for having a good front of house mix!

All in all a well built and thought out unit with a good range of connections and features. I would definitely consider buying more of these.

MA100

This product is very good value for money. Sure, it's not the greatest performer in the world and the speaker complains a bit when the volume is turned up, this happens even when the amp is putting half it's power out! But it's well made and on small stages has served us well. I actually have three of these and the 12" version is much better. The 12" even has that must have accessory a carrying handle, which the 10" omits. A carrying handle would get this product 5 stars considering the price.