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Debate & reception

DebateContested

Hand-built cabinets or commercial pro-audio?

One side

Custom hand-built cabinets and amps

The other

Commercial off-the-shelf pro-audio

What was argued

A documented debate over how a rig should be built, stated neutrally: one tradition insists the sound must be custom-built in-house, cabinets, crossovers and often amplifiers made or heavily modified to a crew's own taste; another view holds that modern commercial pro-audio delivers more reliable, measurable performance and that there is no shame in buying it. Neutral framing; no verdict.

The records this concerns

Sources

dub-stuy Sound Sculptors; The Reggae Museum anatomy notes; sound-system culture features