Re: Fighting Reflective Rooms Through Speaker Placement Angles
What I was pointing out is a mistake that many people make-assuming that the rated horn pattern ACTUALLY controls the sound in that pattern down into the "meat" of the sound. In most cases it does not.
Also starting with a pair of cabinets is a bad idea-especially for a reverberant space.
Unless the customer is insisting on stereo (and has the budget to do it right) I ALWAYS start with a SINGLE loudspeaker in the middle. Then possibly add some small fills if needed-exploded out to the left and right-NOT located with the main speaker.
That is called LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM DESIGN-NOT "Let's put these speakers up and hope for the best" based on no knowledge of how they would ACTUALLY work in the particular space.
But sadly most sound systems have no real thought or design (although the people putting them would argue differently) put into them-at least on how well they will cover the intended space.
In SOOOOOO many cases-as long as the system makes some kind of "noise" the "designer" is happy 
I am hoping for the day in which STIPA measurements become law-and building cannot open until the system meets certain criteria.
At least a lot of the guys who are doing poor quality will go out of business due to trying to fix it or lawsuits.
But I feel that is a bit away-but is a good start for a minimum system REQUIREMENT-of which there is none now.
