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<blockquote data-quote="Glenn Adams" data-source="post: 114893" data-attributes="member: 6611">Re: tall skinny speakersI am always amazed by the number heads out there.Most innovation in loudspeakers and enclosures came first by some guy in a shop with a saw and some wood.if it did not sound good on to the next innovation. The paperwork came later.I am about to turn 56 this month and in all my years at a high end audio shop to years on the road and in bars no paper could describe how well a system would preform in any space. You had to hear it for yourself.i have heard the perfect measured, polar response, step function, spectral, phase, power response, all fall apart in the real world.Pull your heads out of the analyzers and open your ears and mind.Numbers can prevent a load of repeat errors, but anyone can build a true line array with just about any good 3-5 inch drivers and get great sounding stick. Anyone. Oh and a word to the so called current makers of 2,3,4 way &quot; line array&quot; boxes. That ain&#039;t no line;it is just a stack of boxes on their sides. It works a little. Even when 3 S4&#039;s were stacked they got even better.Back in the 70&#039;s a local &quot; to me, about 10 min from the Brothers Clair&quot; store called Dimension 5 sound in Wolmelsdorf did the Montrose Jazz Fest. They were a Bose dealer and clamped about 12 801&#039;s to each of 4 I beams. The sound was killer. It only took Bose 35 years to make what the boys at D5 proved back then without paper.To me the only thing that beats a True Line Array is a point source like a Unity Horn or 80 S4&#039;s in one array.And I do not need the see the paperwork on any of it to know it will work and sound great.Lots of boxes taking it easy trumps a few boxes screaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glenn Adams, post: 114893, member: 6611"] Re: tall skinny speakers I am always amazed by the number heads out there. Most innovation in loudspeakers and enclosures came first by some guy in a shop with a saw and some wood. if it did not sound good on to the next innovation. The paperwork came later. I am about to turn 56 this month and in all my years at a high end audio shop to years on the road and in bars no paper could describe how well a system would preform in any space. You had to hear it for yourself. i have heard the perfect measured, polar response, step function, spectral, phase, power response, all fall apart in the real world. Pull your heads out of the analyzers and open your ears and mind. Numbers can prevent a load of repeat errors, but anyone can build a true line array with just about any good 3-5 inch drivers and get great sounding stick. Anyone. Oh and a word to the so called current makers of 2,3,4 way " line array" boxes. That ain't no line; it is just a stack of boxes on their sides. It works a little. Even when 3 S4's were stacked they got even better. Back in the 70's a local " to me, about 10 min from the Brothers Clair" store called Dimension 5 sound in Wolmelsdorf did the Montrose Jazz Fest. They were a Bose dealer and clamped about 12 801's to each of 4 I beams. The sound was killer. It only took Bose 35 years to make what the boys at D5 proved back then without paper. To me the only thing that beats a True Line Array is a point source like a Unity Horn or 80 S4's in one array. And I do not need the see the paperwork on any of it to know it will work and sound great. Lots of boxes taking it easy trumps a few boxes screaming. [/QUOTE]

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