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Equipment - For Your Ears
At 20/20 Entertainment, we take every step to ensure that the sounds that comes out of our loudspeakers is of the highest quality.
We start with using only media controllers from highly respected manufacturers and then the audio is pass along though to our top of the line mixers made by Numark and Denon. Then it's off to our high quality powered Yamaha speakers. Although there are many great names in speakers such as Mackie, JBL and Peavey, just about everyone both in and outside the professional music industry will recognize Yamaha for its infamous reputation for quality and workmanship.
Scroll down below as we introduce you to some of our fine equipment and be sure to check out the "effect" lighting page as well!
Active (Powered) Loudspeakers
We use Yamaha MSR-400 powered speakers to provide a sound that is loud yet not harsh on the ear. These speakers are small but pack a punch that can rival the best that any 15" inch speaker can put out and then some.
We have now purchased a pair of Yorkville NX550P 550 watt active speakers for mid sized venues. Although they are not much larger than the Yamaha's, they allow us to do mid sized rooms without the need of using the sub.
For larger events we also have the Yorkville NX720S 800 watt 15" powered Subwoofer to represent those ultra lows that really give the sound that "big n rich" feel.
When all of these high end speakers are linked together, they form a system that we can easily boast has nearly 3,500 watts of power, yet is less likely to trip breakers since power consumption can be spread throughout the room rather than all of it coming from power amps at the dj's station where it all ends up coming from 1 or 2 outlets behind them.
We at 20/20 Entertainment DJ Services have spent many hours of research before we invest money into any new gear and the end result is a sound system that is second to none in the province.
Media Controllers
What is a "media" controller?
There is a long and a short answer to this question, but for a general demonstration purpose we will just give you the short answer today. (Long answer can be given upon requst).
A media controller is a player that uses thumb drives or USB hard drives to retrieve music from. It is the latest and the next generation of players utilized by professional disc jockeys in the club and mobile dj industrys
Simular to a pro cd deck it can do all the functions of the traditional cd player however it allows the dj to forgo cases of bulky cds and enjoy the benifits of using a laptop without the issues that can arrises, especially when using a WINDOWS based Operating system. The players that we use also allow for the connection of a standard QWERTY Keyboard for instant access of tracks on a hard drive so like a laptop, selections can be retrieved and played almost instantly.
Anyone who works with Microsoft product for a living or in leisure knows how stable Windows is. :P
Why would a professional dj even rely on a laptop for their music anyway...I digress. :)
The DENON DNHS 5500 Media Controller
The Numark Director D2 Media Controller
Don't forget, you are hiring a professional dj...NOT Billy Gates!
From the controller, we have a choice of these 2 fine mixers
The Denon DN-X500 4 Channel Rackmount Mixer
The Numark DXM-06 2 Channel Battle Mixer
Remember that A Professional DJ likes to use his hands rather than hand the responsability over to our friend BILLY!
Hard Drives
All of our music is encoded directly from the original CD or from Promo Only Compilations that are available to only Professional Disc Jockeys. We encide them in 320 Kbps with the Lame 3.97 Codac for truely flawless representations of the oroginal recordings.
All of our tracks are stored on 2 different hard drives.
The Smartdisk 80 Gig Firelite
The lacie Big Disk Extreme Professional 1TB hard drive
Kingston Datatraviller Thumb Drives
We almost forgot to say that we do use a laptop, however it is for back up and emergency only. It is a HP Pavilian 9910ca (2008 model) that features a 250 gig HD, 17" lcd pannel, 4 gigs of RAM (memory) and runs Vista 64 bit and 5.1 Digital Coax Sound.
At 20/20 we reconize the benifits of using a laptop but we also know that our clients have come to expect us to use a more hands on approach to playing music.
