Compact FRFR for home?

laxu said:
I've used one of those little Marshall Acton Bluetooth speakers with a Strymon Iridium and it honestly sounded fine for a home setup.
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Been seriously considering this as an option lately. Those Marshall BT speakers are everywhere so they're cheap used, look the part, and honestly should sound just as good as, say, a Headrush FRFR GO.
 
if you haven't tried iLouds out i would highly recommend them, the bluetooth is bulletproof and you can stream phone audio while hooked up to the line ins, they are loud as fuq and have mind boggling low end for how small they are. my favorite thing is they have threaded mic stand holes on the bottom that can be used in creative ways to get them where you need them

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0XI0 said:
if you haven't tried iLouds out i would highly recommend them, the bluetooth is bulletproof and you can stream phone audio while hooked up to the line ins, they are loud as fuq and have mind boggling low end for how small they are. my favorite thing is they have threaded mic stand holes on the bottom that can be used in creative ways to get them where you need them

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Is that your bedroom?!
 
0XI0 said:
if you haven't tried iLouds out i would highly recommend them, the bluetooth is bulletproof and you can stream phone audio while hooked up to the line ins, they are loud as fuq and have mind boggling low end for how small they are.
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The iLouds suffer from pretty well noticeable port turbulences. Solo a bass and play a low Ab and you'll know.
I exchanged them twice because I actually thought they were broken - and then IK kinda confirmed this was the "normal" behaviour.
In a mix, the port turbulences are masked and they still work pretty well, but as things go, once you hear this stuff, you can't make it un-happen, and knowing I could possibly never solo a bassline was driving me bonkers, so I went with the Presonus Eris E5. Will one day get something better, though, perhaps some Genelecs.
 
Sascha Franck said:
The iLouds suffer from pretty well noticeable port turbulences. Solo a bass and play a low Ab and you'll know
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oh yeah they can start rattling and clicking at high volume with the sub bass range, but regular mixed music and general use i don't know of a smaller louder more honest reference pair, with bluetooth, for the price. i do like the iLouds in they have a DSP cutoff when the woofers start to clip, they will shutoff and reset before the drivers get damaged
 
0XI0 said:
oh yeah they can start rattling and clicking at high volume with the sub bass range, but regular mixed music and general use i don't know of a smaller louder more honest reference pair, with bluetooth, for the price. i do like the iLouds in they have a DSP cutoff when the woofers start to clip, they will shutoff and reset before the drivers get damaged
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It's got nothing to do with high volumes. It happens at normal speaking levels already.
 
Update: as suggested by @laxu , i ended up snatching a cheap, used Marshall Acton III BT speaker (thank you! 🙏)

I haven't plugged it in to a modeller just yet, but it is a 30W + 2 x 15W tiny box which sounds surprisingly good and balanced with regular audio, so i have no doubts it'll do the trick just fine as a home FRFR. And i dig the looks too 😄


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Marshall also sells a model with an internal rechargeable battery which, if it had an instrument in, would make it basically the same as Headrush's FRFR-Go. It's kinda odd they don't do 1/4" inputs, given the Marshall name et al.

There's however plenty of space to add one ;) I'm planning to mod mine and give it a 1/4" input in the back, which should be a relatively simple operation. Expect a writeup once i get to it!
 
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Lysander said:
Update: as suggested by @laxu , i ended up snatching a cheap, used Marshall Acton III BT speaker (thank you! 🙏)

I haven't plugged it in to a modeller just yet, but it is a 30W + 2 x 15W tiny box which sounds surprisingly good and balanced with regular audio, so i have no doubts it'll do the trick just fine as a home FRFR. And i dig the looks too 😄


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Marshall also sells a model with an internal rechargeable battery which, if it had an instrument in, would make it basically the same as Headrush's FRFR-Go. It's kinda odd they don't do 1/4" inputs, given the Marshall name et al.

There's however plenty of space to add one ;) I'm planning to mod mine and give it a 1/4" input in the back, which should be a relatively simple operation. Expect a writeup once i get to it!
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A 3.5mm adapter is a much cheaper thing to use though, especially since it accepts a stereo connection on the Aux in. In have the first gen version which I think is a bit bigger.
 
laxu said:
A 3.5mm adapter is a much cheaper thing to use though, especially since it accepts a stereo connection on the Aux in. In have the first gen version which I think is a bit bigger.
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Oh yeah, this is me being obsessive about having cables and adapters sticking out of the amp. It will also look much cleaner with the input on the back, IMHO.

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I have that Marshall Speaker; it’s a solid little speaker. Definitely a nice option.

I LOVE my IK iLoud. Unfortunately they don’t make the standalone one anymore. Those are great. They’re all in on the studio monitor thing now, though.
 
bigmenace said:
What about the latency on those Marshall speakers? I'm sure there's some internal DSP happening.
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I'll let you know once i measure it properly, but tl;dr there's no appreciable latency through the Aux input - which is what i'll be hacking into.

The model i got (Acton III) has digital controls, so there's some onboard, very basic DSP happening. A few online references note a <1ms latency for Aux though, which is low enough that it might just be measurement error.
 
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