Re: Danley SM80 and others shootout Monday January 14 at Danley in Gainesville, GA.
Interesting Ivan, it reminded me of when the Basstech 7 evolved-it had better punch to me, and I think it was a couple of things. First, by that time we were starting to play with time alignment between the tops and subs, and second, the Basstech 7 had a nice round "bulge" in the upper end of it's operating range where some of the earlier models didn't(IIRC, it's been a while). So even after dialing in the settings(and we didn't use EQ in the shop system typically), there was probably still some extra output in the upper end of the subs and through the crossover region.
It was also interesting to note that even adding a little subwoofer to the shop system, levels most of us wouldn't consider "proper" for actual use, always smoothed out the overall sound, along with the added realism. Tom used to cite a paper by Ray Dolby about extended bandwidth and realism.
Best regards,
John
