I recently purchased a used Tannoy Cougar stage monitor from the 1980's.
My intention is to use this as a booth monitor (mix monitor) when DJ'ing live as I am usually located behind the loudspeakers and reflection is a big problem so having this on the floor beside me would be great
My thought was simply to use a cougar but now i have it the cougar seems to have been tuned/designed to be very mid/high oriented with very little bass despite that 15" driver.
I have been able to get decent bass from it as it stands by simply boosting the lower frequencies (by 50%) on my mixer but this is not a workable fix and the bass levels are still low.
The cougar uses the Tannow 3859 driver and I cant find out much about it ?
I used to own a pair of Puma's which had the 3805 drivers and these were flawless across the range with great bass response but they did have a larger cabinet which was also ported.
The Cougar is a sealed cabinet but has handles so I removed one just to see if this improves bass response, it does a little 3-4% but as its a non-ported cabinet design i feel this would will stress the driver (and likely blow it) under load.
I'd like to know what my options are really as i need a small cabinet of this size
All the models in the wildcat range had differing crossovers so potentially a crossover change could fix it ?
It doesnt need to go super loud as its not public facing just has to give me a good sound to mix with and a decent bass level is important for this!
If anyone has any experience with these or in this field generally i'd be grateful for your input
Many Thanks!