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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 85076" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Equipment rumor millIvan, I&#039;m sure the designers can measure it just fine, but I bet a lot of the newer systems can&#039;t be adequately represented by current measurement techniques, or in the very least, &quot;single number&quot; notation that many focus on. For something like Martin MLA, how do you represent it with a few numbers, or even a few graphs? It can be programmed to have any pattern anywhere, virtually endless possibility. Even if it could be narrowed down to a couple basic measurements, would anyone actually be able to understand it? Even with the products with lots of measurements readily available, does it actually help anything if only 5% of people know how to accurately interpret these measurements? You yourself said one of the Danley products is essentially 6 ohm nominal, and people just can&#039;t wrap their head around that. And Danley isn&#039;t stuff you can buy at Guitar Center either.The new systems seem to combine amplifiers, DSP, drivers, and boxes together to make a single, cohesive system with far more adjustability than older systems. Anything that is variable is hard to express as single numbers.And yes - I do understand that there are still drivers in the boxes and that those drivers have numeric specifications - but in the cases of these systems, the sum of the components is greater than the individuals would lead you to believe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 85076, member: 34"] Re: Equipment rumor mill Ivan, I'm sure the designers can measure it just fine, but I bet a lot of the newer systems can't be adequately represented by current measurement techniques, or in the very least, "single number" notation that many focus on. For something like Martin MLA, how do you represent it with a few numbers, or even a few graphs? It can be programmed to have any pattern anywhere, virtually endless possibility. Even if it could be narrowed down to a couple basic measurements, would anyone actually be able to understand it? Even with the products with lots of measurements readily available, does it actually help anything if only 5% of people know how to accurately interpret these measurements? You yourself said one of the Danley products is essentially 6 ohm nominal, and people just can't wrap their head around that. And Danley isn't stuff you can buy at Guitar Center either. The new systems seem to combine amplifiers, DSP, drivers, and boxes together to make a single, cohesive system with far more adjustability than older systems. Anything that is variable is hard to express as single numbers. And yes - I do understand that there are still drivers in the boxes and that those drivers have numeric specifications - but in the cases of these systems, the sum of the components is greater than the individuals would lead you to believe. [/QUOTE]

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