PA System (CR2-X Bar Pro)

I got this because I was doing a green accent for my entire office and love the slight green accent. I love the sound quality. It is a nice sound bar and delivers quality sound. Setup was simple, just plug it right in. Performs well and is a great value. Fits perfectly beneath my monitor. Again though, I bought it because of the brightness of the green colored accents.

I like BMR drivers, had high hopes for this sound bar, the problem is that its a decent speaker let down by poor amplification and EQ. Now I got this for about $90 on black friday, so theres that to take into consideration, MSRP $200. At higher output it has some serious noise floor issues after like 45% volume. I cant imagine anyone paying $200 retail for this given the issues that it has at that level of amplification. Decent modern class D amps that are cheap should still be better than whatever is is driving this bar. Im using USB in, but i get cleaner signal using the analog 3.5mm input. So maybe the issue is also within the pre-amp section as well. As for the EQ this has a significant bass hump out of the box and the best making things sound boomy, the best mode is going to be the voice/communication EQ which is the flattest response. The bar plays loud but unfortunately soundstage isnt as wide as most BMRs. I think its good concept but poor execution. Would be nice to see some more EQ ability and response graphs so we can generate out own EQs. Frankly put I think mackie didnt spend enough time tweaking these w/ DSP before selling it.

First of all, the product image was a little misleading. It wasn't clear if this was the sound bar, the two speakers, or both, so let me clear it up. It's just the sound bar. That said, it's exactly what you'd expect a Mackie product to be. Solidly built, loud, not too big to fit under or in front of your computer monitor, has decent presets out of the box, and was easy to setup. Easy to use, too. Switching from computer to Bluetooth was no problem. Personally, I thought all the presets were too boomy out of the box, so I used an EQ on my computer and ran pink noise through it while measuring with an RTA meter. Once I got the EQ curve adjusted how I like it, it started to really shine.

Buen audio, buena construcción

for the price this is listed at and the add on sub that you have to pay extra you would think it would be at the same level as other similar listed computer speakers. If you are going from 10 dollar computer speakers they are worth it, but in my case i currently have the steelseries arena 7 that actually came out a couple dollars under the mackie set. the sound quality was no where near the steelseries. The loudness was there and the bass was equal to the steelseries if not a bit better, but the sound quality was not there. The speakers were not as crisp and sounded a bit distorted, now i dont know if i got faulty speakers, but coming from a good known speaker manufacture it just wasn't it.