Originally Posted by
fullcontact68
Well, had 2 gigs back to back this weekend, so decided to use the Maui's for both. Both events were fairly small attendance events, 50ish on the friday, 20ish on the saturday. The PAK 412's would have been for than enough for both of these, but wanted to try out the new Maui's. Both venues have different layouts, roof heights, stage sizes, room sizes etc, so would be a good test.
First impressions, I do like these, look much tidier than tripods. Only slight "initial?" issue I have, is that I find them quite difficult to separate at the end of the night. Assuming they will loosen up a little with use!
Sound quality is great, nice and clear, nice bottom end. Received good comments about them from the landlord at one venue (he runs open mic nights, has the stage pretty much permanently setup, drums kits, stage lighting, control room, etc)
The volume is the interesting one though, on the dance floor they do appear to be a little quieter than I expected, but I don't think they are quieter, if that makes any sense. They seem to be able to spread the sound better.
When standing behind them, working, I did notice my ears suffered more than I would normally find with the DXR's (Ear plugs had more use than normal). Also, due to this increase volume behind, had to tweak the levels on my mics, which worked, they were edging on echo type feedback!
Overall I'm quite impressed with these, hopefully one of my gigs in the near future will have a higher attendance and I can see how they cope with a larger crowd.