Electrovoice 18bx

[JottoSW1]

Just bought a nice wheeled reflex enclosure with one of these speakers.

 

Other than being old school heavy gear, any comment on these...?

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

Despite the size it's not a sub, it's a bass guitar speaker. Used as a sub performance won't be great. https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/18BX Engineering Data Sheet.pdf

Used for bass guitar it will work pretty well, although the midrange dispersion angle would be narrow.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Bill Fitzmaurice

[JottoSW1]

5 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

Despite the size it's not a sub, it's a bass guitar speaker. Used as a sub performance won't be great. https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/18BX Engineering Data Sheet.pdf

Used for bass guitar it will work pretty well, although the midrange dispersion angle would be narrow.

Bass Guitar is what it'll be used for.

Vendor used it with an SWR 410 (not approved combination I guess) Plus one of their lovely amps.

In my case I'll try it out with a Trace Elliot 1818t, at least a match in speaker size. Plus any of my Amplifiers. Though my new Laney Nexus Tube will be 1st in line.

[BassmanPaul]

The first amp I ever used had an 18" Goodmans. The first amp I ever bought, a VOX AC50 with its matching Foundation cabinet also used an 18. Both were very, very poor for use with a bass guitar. I currently own four B2 2x10s by Acme. These reproduce the Low B of my five and six string instruments with ease.