OnlyFactoryDirect.com Launches First Annual Technical Pro Sales Event Today

OnlyFactoryDirect.com launches the largest Technical Pro Sales Event of the year with 10%-25% off Technical Pro speakers amplifiers, and pro audio equipment. The sale will highlight some of Technical Pro's most sought after equipment like, 15% off Technical Pro's rack mount power supply with 5v USB charging ports, the PS9U.

Since its inception, Technical Pro has become a leader in DJ & home audio manufacturing. Driven by a passion for sound, their mission is to establish new standards of reliability and performance with an uncompromising approach to audio design. The result is a product line that offers an unrivaled assortment of professional audio equipment featuring newer hybrid technology and digital amplification. Few audio manufacturers have kept up with the digital revolution of mp3’s, tablets, and digital audio files, but Technical Pro has embraced the latest technology and built it in to their products from design to shelf.

Technical Pro's Hybrid Series of integrated amplifiers offer a ton of power and features such as pre-amp, SD and USB inputs, mp3 player connections, and Bluetooth compatibility, while remaining extremely affordable. Sale items to also inlcude; Technical Pro speakers like the PVRTX powered speakers, VRTX passive loudspeakers, studio monitors, power amplifiers, signal processors, and more. 

The technical team at OnlyFactoryDirect.com took the most popular Technical Pro speakers and amplifiers and paired them with the proper cables, stands, and accessories, to create bundled packages to save buyers money. Receiving awards for their outstanding customer service, OnlyFactoryDirect.com also promises to deliver the lowest prices on Technical Pro products. 

Founded in 2004, OnlyFactoryDirect.com is an on-line resource for audio equipment at factory direct prices. OnlyFactoryDirect.com offers over 3,000 audio related products from well known brand names like JBL and Mackie to emerging new brands like Technical Pro and Podium Pro Audio. 

OnlyFactoryDirect.com offers free ground shipping on all orders within the continental United States and a 30-day “No Hassle” guarantee. If you are not fully satisfied with your new guitar cabinet, OFD will pay the return shipping and give you a full refund (see details).

User Review of Technical Pro Urec5

My name is Shawn C and I’m a front-of-house engineer as well as an active musician near Toronto, Canada.

I had a need to record live performances as well as rehearsals and was looking for a simple solution that I could mount in my road case and connect directly to my mixer. I happened across the Technical Pro Urec5  and it looked to do what I needed done.

 

To be quite honest, I was concerned about the fact that there wasn’t any online user reviews or content about the Urec5 unit. And, the price made me second guess my interest in the product, too– was this studio grade quality? Is it as good as $250 solution or even a $500 solution? After using it for a month or so I say to you, YES to all.  

Upon opening the package and setting it up I was surprised to find out that I had to use an SD card that was less than 4Gb in size. I picked up a 2Gb card at the local Staples wondering if I should pick up another.  THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE! You can record hours and hours of content on this thing with files automatically converted directly to MP3.  For editing, I drag them off the card and drop them directly onto a track in my audio workstation software (Cubase).  The quality is clean with little to no noise.  I get EXACTLY what the mixer is feeding it. 

 

So, where’s the catch? Where’s the ‘it’s not as good as a costlier solution’?

There is no catch. It is what it is.  And, considering no real mechanical parts are required with record-to-chip-memory technology, then one shouldn’t expect a lot in terms of mass.

This is a simple device: record and playback.  There is no search or scrubber capability which means you have to move through a list of recordings one by one and play a song back from the beginning to find something in the middle. Is this a big problem? Not, really but, it’s inconvenient at times, especially during rehearsals where you want to listen back to a particular area of interest.  Too, you can plug a USB drive into the device, as well as the SD chip, and play music during set-breaks which is a big plus rather than having to hang your IPOD off your rig or consume two channels on your mixer for your IPOD.

Operationally, you set the Urec5 device to ‘record’ mode; press the record ‘arm’ button and then press the ‘go’ button.  To play back you disarm it, set to ‘play mode’ and press ‘play’.  The device has its own EQ and volume control so sending it back through your mixer’s TAPE IN saves you from having to consume mixer channels.

As far as construction goes, the container is adequate but I’d be concerned about placing something heavy on top of it.  It works well in a rack situation which, reminds me: the rack ears are packaged separately inside of the Styrofoam supports  so LOCATE THESE FIRST BEFORE TOSSING OUT.  The front panel is solid and there’s a substantial tactile presence to the buttons and knobs.  There’s no ‘click’, per se, when the SD card goes in – it just gets to the point where it won’t go any further so don’t force it.

With respects to connectivity there are both RCA and ¼ unbalanced connections going in and out of the box.  I feed to the UREC from my TAPE OUT and return through the TAPE IN connections on the mixer.  I’ve also sent a feed from the ¼ out (concurrently to the RCA outs, btw) to an M-Audio digital interface which worked well providing you didn’t jiggle the cables which caused a bit of noise. 

Remember, too, that this device will probably be fed from a mixer with just enough output to power a set of headphones.  This will not be the same sound that people hear in the venue you’re playing into.  The fact is your choice of PA drivers, speakers, subs and cabinets all affect the color and tonality of your end-sound.  So, what comes out of the mixer may lack a degree of personality that those other components provide.  Like I said, you get what ever your mixer gives. 

Yes, I’d buy another. Yes, I’d recommend this to a family member. And, Yes, I’d buy from Only Factory Direct again.

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Technical Pro RX35U Review

Technical Pro RX35U Review

The RX35U Audio Receiver with Tuner is nicely packed, and the manual included is moderately informative, but gives you all the necessary information required except, more detailed specifications regarding the wattage. It is a personal pet peeve of mine that almost all amplifier manufacturers are overly optimistic or intentionally confusing on their stated specifications. We will hook up the system and share our guesstimation as to the continuous wattage, later. The amplifier itself weighs 8lbs and overall has a clean professional look. The front panel of the RX35U, there are 22 features including volume/tuner knobs, USB, SD card, mp3 player inputs, DVD, Aux, MP3/SD/USB, Play/Pause, Previous, and Next Buttons, two microphone inputs and three knobs to control the microphone's volume, echo, and tone and finally three controls to manipulate bass, treble, and balance.

We are currently in the midst of building outdoor theater packs for next summer, so Technician Scott and I hooked up five 800C speakers using a laptop and Alesis-4USB mixer. The sound was really incredible, we tested several scenes from "Lord of the Rings," and "Harry Potter," because they both have excellent surround formatting and we wanted to test the surround capabilities. We were really impressed by the overall sound quality and therefore wanted to push the amplifier to see if the RX35U could handle some bigger speakers. We switched the front Podium Pro 800Cs for the larger Trap12 models in the front and "wow" it really created a surround system that could easily cover a 50 person venue. Connecting the system was simple, and well laid out.

Next, we tested the USB and SD card inputs, and again the over-all performance was good. We didn't bother setting up an antenna to test the tuner. I would estimate the actually combined RMS around 300 watts @ 8ohms.

The coolest thing about this receiver is that I can see it being used in so many different capacities, from my daughters dance studio, to our home surround theater, outdoor theaters (amp is not weather resistant), restaurants, and small venues.

Bottom line, I would say that for the ridiculously low price of $124.99 and taking all the features, power, and sound quality in to consideration  the Technical Pro RX35U is absolutely a great buy.