Home Hi Fi as DJ Gear

[StevieBee]

I do a bit of mobile DJ ing - nothing not over the top, mainly pubs and small village hall stuff.

Normally, I borrow a mate's (who's a singer), Mackie 1600 Active's and Mixer, running the music from a Mac (iTunes and DJay). The sound is stunning but for most of what I need, somewhat over the top. Plus, he's doing more gigs so availability is not always guaranteed.

So, I've started to look around for an amp/speaker combo but what's affordable doesn't really cut it on the audio/sonic front.

Our local cash convertor regularly has half decent HiFi Speakers and amps for sale and was wondering if there is any logical reason why they wouldn't work as DJ gear - putting aside the relative frailty of said items.

Thoughts appreciated.

[headcase]

They wont have the mixing functionallity and they will be stereo and possibly not loud enough, if you can get around that some other way then they should be ok.

[The_Burg]

TBH normal HiFi will not tolerate the sort of levels without failing. For quality and ability to play loud all night you will have to spend the bucks. (Though most 'DJ's' these days outside of clubs seem to have a laptop, 128k MP3s and some cheap crap from Maplin).

[StevieBee]

The_Burg said:

laptop, 128k MP3s and some cheap crap from Maplin).

Yep - trouble is, it's still not that cheap!

Thanks