Help with newly Salvaged Gear

[madmex]

Hello all!

I was thrilled to find your forum today after doing a google search.

I have always been a avid "dumpster-diver" and a few weeks ago I was shocked to find a full height 19inch, 4 post AV rack sticking out of a construction dumpster where they were remodeling a large office building. I asked the most "in-charge" looking person I could find if they cared if I grabbed the rack and he didn't care..
Well, I went to grab it and found that it was full of Audio gear!

I now own a plain 9442A power amp, an anniversary series 9442a amp, a 1415A 150W amp, and a very obscure "microbus" 8551A equalizer. (also an EV ELX-1R 4 channel mixer but thats not legacy AL gear..)

I have a very basic knowledge of electronics and multimedia equipment, and I would like some help in putting the equipment to use.

You see readers, I'm getting married in a month, and rather than pay big money to have a DJ, I have been given the green light to use this equipment (and some speakers I'll have to buy) and an MP3 player to play music at my wedding.

Now, I have figured out that I can get a phono to XLR converter to plug into the 4ch mixer(I'll also have a microphone), that I can plug an XLR cable from the mixer into the 1415A's XLR input. However, I see only one XLR output(at least, I think its an out because I don't understand what the horizontal screw terminal is for). Does this mean I run it into one PA-type speaker and then hook up another speaker into this first speaker and run the speakers in series? What Ohm rating and I running at this point? What ohm rating am I looking for in PA speakers?

Also, the venue is outdoors, is the 150W amp enough power?

Please, any assitance you can provide would be great. I get a chill just thinking about putting this really high quality gear to work for my wedding (especially considering the price)

Thanks!

K.

[cclark65]

Get some efficient speakers and these amps will do it, but depending on how large area you want to cover, you might need more. I use the 9442 amp to drive just the 902-8B drivers on my 3-way PA setup, crossed over around 1600Hz.

The mixer is probably mono. If you aren't concerned about sound quality a lot, then just make a "Y" cable and split to the 2 channels of the amp, or to the 2 separate amps if you are going to bridge them. (using MP3's for sound, I would assume the quality wouldn't be the greatest anyway)