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<blockquote data-quote="Guy Graham" data-source="post: 91655" data-attributes="member: 1944">Re: Cardioid Subs in a Smaller venue.In Dave Rat&#039;s YouTube material he states that the primary reason he doesn&#039;t like/use cardioid subs is the detriment to sound quality that results from the sound in front of the stage, that is caused by the combination of the front firing sub in a cardioid array with the delayed out of phase bass coming from the rear-firing sub. In a real-world situation where cardioid subs are deployed, is this impediment to the sound quality in the house as noticible as the theoretical combination of the forward sum of all the subs in the array, which ends up being a mix of the in-phase front-firing box combining with the out-of-phase rearward box signal?In other words does the theoretical problem manifest itself in a noticeable degradation of sound quality, or in a real-world scenario are the benefits of using this bass-steering technique to clean up stage noise, reduce potential for standing waves and so forth, better to the point of negating the undesirable effect produced out front when mixed phase sub-bass frequencies are heard in the house?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guy Graham, post: 91655, member: 1944"] Re: Cardioid Subs in a Smaller venue. In Dave Rat's YouTube material he states that the primary reason he doesn't like/use cardioid subs is the detriment to sound quality that results from the sound in front of the stage, that is caused by the combination of the front firing sub in a cardioid array with the delayed out of phase bass coming from the rear-firing sub. In a real-world situation where cardioid subs are deployed, is this impediment to the sound quality in the house as noticible as the theoretical combination of the forward sum of all the subs in the array, which ends up being a mix of the in-phase front-firing box combining with the out-of-phase rearward box signal? In other words does the theoretical problem manifest itself in a noticeable degradation of sound quality, or in a real-world scenario are the benefits of using this bass-steering technique to clean up stage noise, reduce potential for standing waves and so forth, better to the point of negating the undesirable effect produced out front when mixed phase sub-bass frequencies are heard in the house? [/QUOTE]

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