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I am not impressed by the Ksub. The HPR 181i is a much better powered subwoofer.

I and my friends are at a similar point. Some of us have set up small (mainly Vocopro) systems at home, but since our group is growing we want to take our meet-ups outside. We have enough PG/SM/58 mics, music, and Kararoke players with key-control. We just want a good amp/speaker system.

Typically we are about 30-40 folks and we would go to any place where we can rent space cheap for 7-8 hours - a 30 by 20 conference room at a motel to a large church 100 by 100 church basement. We are hoping that some of us will get better and be able to get some wedding/party/charity-show gigs - the equipment has to work for that too, for events of upto 100-200 people. Also hope to put together a small band at some later date.

Therefore we are looking for a amp/speaker system that will do equally well in small venues (played in lower volumes) as well as larger venues, for karaoke as well as small band, and music tracks ranging from ballads to dance to rock. I am trying to read up on sound and audio basics in order to find an optimal PA system for our needs.

We are looking at this one right now: Yamaha EMX512SC/S115V PA Package with Monitors for $2000 including shipping. http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... ID=2976624

If anyone here has any thoughts on our situation, I would be most grateful if they shared them. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions and pointers.

Well for the price, it's pretty good price especially with the free lights & speaker stands. It's going to completely blow the sound quality of the VocoPro stuff you are using now away, although you still may want to upgrade the mics to something better. As for using for live music - depending on what kind of a band & music being played - that might be an issue, would not be my first choice in any means, but could work.