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Speakers for restaurant

Hi all:
i recently purchased two Sound Acoustics c-8240 commercial mixer amplifiers from a restaurant that went out of business and am now getting ready to use one (or both if necessary) for a small restaurant we are moving into and renovating. There are basically two areas. One large 30x30 dining room with 16 foot ceilings and a 26x26 patio outside. We will only require the system to play background music and the occasional louder catering events (staff parties) and I would like to find out what speakers I should buy for both areas.  I am planning to run 12 gauge speaker wire (as this is what I have from another Reno) but am at a bit of a loss to pick some reasonably priced decent speakers. Any help will be greatly appreciated 
thanks,
Erik from Perth, Ontario, Canada
erikkafrissen
erikkafrissen OP
1 posts
 
Thanks so much for all of the feedback, I think I will take your advice and go down to a local audio place in Ottawa and get their feedback.

thanks ahain
wolf_garcia
6,696 posts
 
I like Mackie speakers, and powered ones aren't particularly expensive...QSC has nice ones also, and with something like that they can easily be used as live sound PA speakers, as well as very loud and robust, or soft, background music speakers.
audiokinesis
2,737 posts
 

I would think that you'd want fairly uniform coverage over as much of the area as you can reasonably get. 

Mirage speakers come to mind.  They are quasi-omnidirectional, and so they give good coverage over a very wide area. 

Duke

elevick
2,636 posts
 
EV 40 are great.  They are internally fused to keep people from blowing them.  Personally, I hate hot spots for sound.  Anyone sitting under the single large Mackie or JBL will go deaf while others barely hear them.  I like to put them all around.

Also, you should consider running the system mono.  Again, for background music and announcements it will work better.

Most importantly, you want an impedance matching transformer/speaker selector.  Get a good one.  Cheap ones will melt over time.  
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