the box MA 205

Very good for its price

We mounted 12 pieces in a church about 3 years ago.

They still work perfectly.

Great monitors

I love these monitors, one of my best investments, I have 4 of them. I didn't expect much from these due to size and price, but had them about 5 years and still working well.

The mountings were a disappointment, I have had my own design quick release angle brackets made which I mount onto sturdy cymbal stands and are now very stable, mounting on microphone stands was not working well for me, they didn't feel very secure.

I would prefer if they had a separate mains lead as transporting them would be a lot easier.

Sound wise they don't give a lot of very highs or very lows but that is fine for monitoring and is good in terms of feedback

Great Monitor

Great extra Monitor for Drummers etc. I hook it thru a littl eq. Works a treat.

Make a nice compact foldback speaker

Purchased several of these to use as on stage foldback for a Church. We were having problems as the room we use was very reverberant, so wanted to b able to lower the level of on stage sound. By having more smaller speakers, closer to the musicians we were able to achieve this. For the cost, they are perfect for what we required.

They mount well on either short or tall mic stands and can be angled to point at your ears nicely. Nice choice of inputs (XLR, Jack, RCA), and able to daisy chain them. Volume control on the back so individual can change the overall level of their mix, but not too obvious so as to have people constantly tinkering with them. As they are quite compact, they are not obtrusive on the stage.

They are quite heavy, so make sure the stand you put them on, if doing this, is not too flimsy, and that you make sure you do all the adjusters on the stand up tight, or you may find the speaker moving!

Overall, for what we wanted to achieve, these have done the job really well, and value wise are perfect. The quality of the product, and the quality of the sound from them is ideal for our situation.

Decent monitor for the price

We use this monitor for our drummer. It mounts on a microphone stand which, due to the heavy weight of the monitor, tends to seem slightly unsteady but it has never fallen over yet.

It works perfectly for our drummer (5 piece covers band) and really helps him hear what he wants to hear.

Its a no frills quality monitor with a budget price.

Very good

Packs a big punch

I bought this to use as a stand mounted monitor for the bands' singer and guitarist. It works a treat. compact unit but delivers the sound.

Amazed

Bought this as, being a keyboard player Im often at the back of the stage, and standard wedge monitors are blocked by my keyboards. This little beauty has a mounting bracket that allows you to mount it on a mic stand, so now the monitor is at ear height, and its small enough not to be obstructive!

Ive only given it 4 stars for sound as it has only got small speakers, but sound quality isnt what this is about, it so I can now for the first time actually hear what Im, and the band is playing.

The Web page says you need an adaptor to mount onto the Mic stand- but that is only true if you have a stand with the smaller 3/8" thread, but mine didnt

Great for the price. MA 205

Great speaker for the money. Good sound and ideal for a personal monitor. The mic stand mount option is handy. The plate that screws on to the speaker housing is attached to the mounting arm with a bolt. The head of the bolt is proud of the mounting plate by a few mm, which means when you attach it to the speaker the bolt makes contact with the speaker before the edges of the mounting plate, which is not ideal. I fitted four self adhesive felt pads to the plate. This ensure that the plate is supporting the speaker and the head of the bolt is not touching the cabinet. Now it is very secure although the two thumb screws that secure the plate to the speaker are not very large only M4 thread. I would recommend leaving the mounting plate attached to the speaker. Not sure M4 will take much abuse. Other than this small issue I am happy with the sound and compact size.

Not great for use with a band

These are well made chunky little cabinets but I found that fitting them so a stand was a bit awkward and then transporting them difficult because of the bits of stand sticking out. I ended up sawing of bit of the bracket in order to get a good fitting

They would probably be good for gentle jazz etc but in my case they just could not get over the sound of the band.

Mini monitors

We have 4 of these used as monitors. Although they could sometimes do with a little more power, in most cases they have been fine. We find they are best on top of mic stands (minus boom arm) as this height is great for singers to hear. Also seem pretty resistant to feedback too.