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INTRODUCTION

Mackie Speakers have been around quite a few years now and I have been a few bands that have used their SRM (Sound Reinforcement Monitors) range of speakers and I must say I have always thought they do a very professional job, are reliable with a great build quality and sound great. Mackie decided to re-design them and they now have a version 2 range of SRM speakers and following my review of their cheaper Mackie Thump range, I decided to look at the SRM 450v2.

I thought that the SRM 450 (both version 1 and 2) had 15inch woofers because of the frequency range that they both cover from 45Hz – 20KHz, but they do in fact have 12 inch woofers. This frequency range is as good as many 15” active monitors on the market.
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INTRODUCTION

If you are in a local band, you are very familiar with the lugging of heavy gear, upstairs, through fire-doors, down narrow corridors, in fact quite often through an assault course of obstacles until you reach the stage or area where you are to setup your gear. With heavy back-straining PA speakers this can often be a very painful experience and quite frankly it is not what you really want to do before performing for a couple of hours.

It has been a challenge for speaker manufactures to create a very powerful speaker with an in-built amplifier in a lightweight package, especially as more often than not these cabinets need a vast frequency range to cope with anything from deep Synth basses to crisp sizzling hi-hats and therefore must have a 15” bass-pounding woofer as well as a high-frequency compression driver.

Mackie are a leading speaker manufacture and have been looking at this problem for some time. Their famous and most popular cabinet the SRM450 almost achieves this with a great sound and a weight of 40 lbs. (18 kg) but these are reasonably expensive speakers and still not very light in weight. With this in mind they have produced a cheaper and lighter speaker – the Mackie Thump. The Mackie Thump comes in two sizes – The TH-15A with a 15” Woofer and the TH-12A with a 12” which is even lighter.

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