ElectriSound

01/01/2025

Thanks for a great year everyone, here's to a great 2025!

11/25/2024

Steve says it well as always...

08/23/2024

02/27/2024

We've ordered enough of these to send on every gig this year...

01/27/2024

Had an excellent week with David Carmack getting trained to do out own CM Lodestar inspections!

12/02/2023

We are shaping up to have the busiest December ever thanks to our excellent customers!

Please note, we are booked well past New Years for both live events and installations. We apologize but we can no longer accept any pre-Christmas requests for anything except box sales.

08/05/2023

How to Coil a Cable

The ideal mix for maximum competitive cable-coiling energy is one A/V tech, one rock climber, one sailor, and one topologist.

05/23/2023

Just putting the finishing touches on restoring a set of KV2 VHD2.0 cabinets for the season!

04/08/2023

A little racks and stacks rental...

01/15/2023

Allen & Heath iLive iDR-48 Internal Memory Battery Swap

We often get asked for help on this topic, since almost all iLives are at the point in their live span that the soldered in batteries should be replaced. The battery used is actually a very high quality Varta NiMH battery that is very well rated in the industry, but the manufacturer only guarantees a 5 year period when used as a standby battery. In our experience most have lasted 10 years in mix racks, but that's about the most you'll get out of them.

Note: These batteries are separate from the battery(s) in the surface. The surface batteries should also be replaced, but we haven't taken pictures for a step by step of that process yet. The SBC CR2032 should be replaced every 5 years at a minimum and is the most common cause of a 'touchscreen failure'. The impact of the iDR battery being bad is typically just the annoyance that a power outage will result in factory settings and youll need to recall a show file.

01/08/2023

KV2 Audio CS8

Review of CS8 - the compact middle member of the CS line from KV2.

Upon opening the speaker you'll notice the construction is excellent as usual for KV2. The truck bed liner style paint is a significant improvement and a durable coating which should fair well on the road. The speaker has 35 and 55 degree monitor angles, which work well in testing for close positioning of the wedge to a singer on a mic stand.

The grill is rugged and durable like the second generation grills from the EX series. A notable improvement however is the addition of acoustical foam under the grill to mask the visibility of the drivers and provide additional dust protection.

The bottom, back, and both monitor angles have four rubber feet to help protect the enclosure from the ground. EDIT: KV2 has informed us that the feet are indeed screwed on to the enclosure. The enclosure is quite heavy, with the drivers and passive crossover/EQ/limiter network taking a significant portion of the weight.

The cabinet has an M10 point on the top/bottom and left/right for yoke brackets which are available options from ElectriSound or any other KV2 dealer. The cabinet may be used with a speaker stand with the use of an adaptor such as the K&M 24521-000-55 reducer fl**ge that attaches to the bottom M10 point.

The cabinet has excellent clarity and sounds great as both a full range enclosure (low end rolls off around 70) or high passed for use with a sub or as a monitor wedge. The CS8 has excellent magnitude and phase response right out of the box. Attached are a phase/magnitude trace from the CS8 in an untreated room showing its performance with a rough transfer function. The output is incredibly clear and crisp - the hallmark of KV2.

We drove the cabinet quite loud - but didn't take it to limit with the amplifier we have on the bench. The LF is protected by an auto-reset thermal breaker and the HF is protected by a fairly sophisticated electronic limiter network powered by the speaker input itself.

EDIT: We got out a real amplifier and took these speakers to painful levels without the internal protection kicking in. No damage and no limiting. We drove them at that level long enough to give up with a QSC PLX1602 with the clip lights just blinking. Per specs that would be roughly 300W, just over the 275W rating of the cabinet. They're more than loud enough, and crystal clear, for anything we could dream of using them for. Plenty of dynamics left and you can just hear acoustical compression start on the woofer. This was also full range not high passed.

Pros: Excellent sounding, compact, versatile passive protected speaker. Excellent as monitor, or fill speaker. Durable coating, durable construction. Feet are low profile and unobtrusive. Multiple monitor angles make it an excellent choice for a nearfield wedge. Compact unobtrusive design.

Cons: The enclosure does not contain an integral pole mount for portable use. The ESD8 (same acoustical performance enclosure) does indeed have this feature, but without the multiple monitor angles.

Key Specs:
8 ohm passive 2-way
94dB sensitivity







ElectriSound is a KV2 dealer, however no consideration was given for publishing this review - the statements here are opinions of the reviewer only.

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas!

08/28/2022

It turns out a direct lightning strike can do a lot of damage. They have much more to fix in the electrical system but the audio system is back up and running for Mass at the beautiful St. Boniface church this weekend.

A shot of one of the damaged DA chips in the Xilica Uno. The lightning strike followed the signal calbling.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/pittsburgh-church-struck-by-lightning-during-service/N7WIPLENYVHIXLVXAQMKALKXQM/

08/20/2022

A little Saturday festival humor...