MackieDRM18S 18" Professional Powered Subwoofer, 2000W Peak

This speaker sounds like 5 times its size and it’s amazingly easy to use with all types of systems. I thought I heard loud before with the other similar Top named speaker brands for live music and PA systems and of course DJs using giant speakers for their venues. I have several different brands for DJ gigs but once I heard that powerful clear sound coming out of the Mackie DRM315 powered speakers there’s no comparison with the technology and quality of their speakers. I recently went to a preplaned Tailgate party at my work and I told my manager and friends I would bring the music for our Tailgate party. I brought my portable solar generator with couple thousand watts power and plugged in the Mackie DRM315 with a Bluetooth and everyone had a great time listening to the speakers clean clear sounds and giant Bass thunder. The Mackie was an immediate Hit with everyone and it worked fantastic and the power consumption was very little on my solar generator. I brought my Mackie in the back of my van and it was very easy to sit on the ground. I can’t emphasize enough about how much difference in speaker quality sounds compared to my other speakers that are famous brands as well. I think if a person wants something that will make everyone look at their equipment because it sounds fantastic and very sleek and professional they should just take a few minutes to hear the Mackie DRM series. This series is above the other Mackie series and it’s really for professional gigs not just for simple Tailgate parties. The speakers are kinda overkill for small parties but if you need the powerful sounds you are guaranteed to have the quality loud sounds for a 300-400 person venue. Yeah it’s really loud. Thank you Mackie for your fantastic speakers.

Having been very satisfied with all the other Mackie products I have purchased over the past 20 years, it was time to upgrade my speaker stacks, and the DRM315 met and exceeded my every expectation!Each of the DRM315 replaced two Th15 Thumps and one SRM450 per stack on top of an 18" Thump subwoofer with surprisingly more power and clarity. No problem filling an outdoor 400-person venue with headroom to spare. The band also loves the neater stage and my roadies appreciate the simpler setup.Absolutely well worth the price!

Mackie quality is up there anyway so I was expecting a lot to start. I have owned Mackie equipment since I started many years ago. I have used JBL subs of several types and have been around lots of QSC equipment. I haven’t tested the DRM”s side by side with those others, but I think I have a pretty good idea already.You will probably get more dump out of JBL or QSC if you go with their flagship subs. But you will also pay through the nose for them. I’m not a huge fan of JBL subs personally and I do think Mackie is cleaner sound across the board. For $700 or so less, the DRM 18 is far and away a no brainer.I need to get these into a big venue to really stretch them out, but so far at home, they just about broke my face off. I really tried to turn them up to unity, I couldn’t take it. Also they decided to throw one of my wife’s glass flowers off the shelf in the next room, so I got the ole kaibosh after that. I tried to tell her that we have a ghost that did it, but she’s pretty convinced that Mr. 18 did it. I mean honestly who really knows. She swears she smudged the house a few months ago so no ghosts here. I said, well he could’ve moved in yesterday. She responded that Mr. Breakyourjaw just moved in yesterday too so who really did it. IDK.

Over all the Sub is nice and has good sound but overlooked putting caps on the corners to prevent damage. One of the corners came slightly damaged. No damage on shipping box so must have occurred at the factory. Amazon recommend a pole to mount a speaker atop the sub. They recommend the wrong one and must be returned. The Sub has a M20 Threaded pole mount. Is absolutely needed to mount a speaker atop the sub. This should have been included with the sub.

Mackie’s top for a price of competitor's low. Huge.

Horrible design. Speakers lack of a fan is a huge negative. They can hype it up all they want saying the air flow from the speaker cools the amp but that is bs. So far I have had 3 of these 1 arrived with the hf driver not working and the other 2 stopped after 2 gigs. Barely pushed had to run home and get my EV etx 15p 2 way tops to finish the event. Mackie customer service is a complete joke only suggestion they had was to drive 4 hours to a repair center for a brand new speaker.

I love this subwoofer...I had to get a mixer in order to get the right performance ..I'm using 2 tops mackies and this subwoofer sounds great and very powerful .

Item arrived as described and very early.