Why loudspeaker system fail?

Josh R Evans

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The rise and fall of outline GTO as well as the rise and fall of d@nley.

One house to ask the question, why is one loudspeaker more popular than the other. To use my lessons learned from a previous sales rep who worked for a company who I will not mention. Unfortunately, the gentleman exited planet earth a little early.The gentleman shared with me, the secret to doing demos with line arrays. The trick is, whoever did the demo last wins the job.

The problem Italy had was the Italy. It was first to create specific technology. Along with the French, the first was lacoustics. The second was nexo in outline. Nexo and outline created a patent war over the dual parabolic phase plug, in which case nobody won and there. The industry didn't recognize either company and made fun of them in marketing.

The Germans have been amazing with their efficiency and continue the work of Alexander Hertz, in which case the Germans use The Beatles and put them on a treadmill, making them perfect without the Germans. The Beatles wouldn't exist. The Beatles had good music in England. But because of the reprocity or repetition they got good. Same for me, with designing sound systems using German. Software, I did the same thing over and over and eventually got good. The Germans showed app several decades ago, with venture capitalist money and properly funded the invention of the J8, the J8 loudspeaker, was fantastic and was an amazingly good successful product. However, the follow-up was not so successful in my opinion. Acoustically, speaking. Financially speaking very successful.

The benefit of one loudspeaker over another for touring purposes was supposed to be weight of the loudspeakers. I'm familiar with weight saving in the installation world. We used to save a fortune by using ceiling loudspeakers with a higher sensitivity, which meant lower wattage amplifiers, which cost less money and required less real.Estate space in the equipment racks.

The same is true for a manifold corn. Loaded loudspeaker in short from the days of all tech lansing, a manifold loudspeaker includes using multiple drivers, typically, two drivers sharing one coentrant input to a horn. There are two benefits and only 2. First, the , max s p l goes up three d b, second the sensitivity goes up 6 dB. Why does that matter? Well, you can use a 10000 kW amplifier, which has a current rating of X and achieve the same S. P l level as a twenty kilowatt amplifier, which has a current draw of x. Yes, there are benefits of harmonic distortion. Yes, Dave rat pioneered and convinced the rhcp band to tour with 2 liner rays. And yes, we can debate this till the cows come home. However, the matter of fact is, there's more than one benefit besides the two mentioned for manifold technology.

The simple fact is the relationships between the largest manufacturers such as Meyer, Adamson, dnb. La acoustics outline, nexo, danley, have nothing to do with me. I'm not a tour professional once upon a time. I had dreams of flying Claire. S four rigs and showco a prism rigs from regal row however, I chickened out and took a comfortable gig. Mixing a symphony and later, sitting at a desk in air conditioning or heating designing systems using three d models, in which case at the time.The tour industry did not use three d models.

Now, elacoustics gets credit for many, many, many things. Does it make him better? It just means that they get credit for doing lots of really good things such as creating a dealer network, a rental network consistency, and providing 3D models of stadiums and arenas for their prediction program. In which case was slightly more accurate by a quarter d b then the other prediction programs.

The lacoustics speakers loudspeakers, just sound better, meaning they're not as aggressive as the other counterparts. They don't throw as far they're not as accurate but they do sound better. It's not that they couldn't have designed a dual parabola.It's that they made decisions in my opinion to modify the dual parabola, in which case it sounded better.

Maybe the bumper bars weren't as good. Maybe the subwoofers weren't as good, maybe the support was different. Maybe IA lot of things, but in short, things are the way things are and La acoustiques has thousands of installations. In which case all they have to do economically? Is replace their old systems with new systems, much like taking an iron to a shirt and fixing the wrinkles. Was there a benefit? In addition, with the new loudspeakers, not that makes me interested. If I had a pre-existing French sound system, will I be interested absolutely? And with that I wish them luck.

Regarding outline, they are simply more accurate and more precise end of story. However, people did not want that they wanted marketing. They wanted numbers, they wanted relationships, and that has nothing to do with italy. In italy, the product is the product end of story. The bumper bar from Italy was too big too big. They said, that's disgusting. It was the perfect size and the only line array to have a point 25° angle, in which case throwing sound past 300 feet requires. In my opinion, a quarter degree of accuracy. Not precision accuracy. Actually, I said that backwards, as I always do, but you get the point, and if you don't know the difference between precision and accuracy, you don't belong hanging line arrays, above people's heads.

The problem the n b a had with the l acoustics, rigging, it's none of my concern. I was at the installer or the consultant, but it is a problem for l acoustics.

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Danley

They don't have a background in the tour market. They never have, and never will. Their beliefs arbiblical, in which case they will not support non biblical sound systems. Does it matter how good they are? Does it matter if it's techno or e d m they won't support that market unless it's the church market. Once upon a time, an amplifier company showed up to a tour company. And the tour companies told them we're going to teach you about amplifiers, in which case everyone scratched their head and said, no, you're not in which case they said yes. We are and they did. This is the same problem that Danley will have and always has. They can't get out of their own way they don't have rigging, they don't have bumper bars, they don't have marketing. They don't even have basic limiters compared to the other brands. However their sound is better. On all fronts. The problem will be that eventually the talent, what age out, in which case the legacy may or may not be able to replicate the same sound.



I'm currently having the same problem as a third generation legacy. Trumpet player, I sound good. I sound really good, but I don't sound anywhere close to my father. My father would spit out more notes.Then I could ever even dream of. Even if I live to be a 120 winton, Marsalis and Rick Evans, we'll play better notes than I will. So I stopped trying to sound like winton marsalis and rick evans.



I did the same thing with sound system designs instead of trying to sound in design like Don Davis. I created my own version of designs and my own application and my own process. I tried to replicate the design process of Germany and New England and it failed disgustingly. However, when I started designing Using my own process, my system sounded just fine. I work, just find and outperform thing. Every other sound system from a functional standpoint, pennies on the dollar.



The best analogy is the car analogy. Someone wants a Ferrari. They can't afford a Ferrari, so they buy a Lamborghini, or someone wants a Ferrari, but wants to drive it differently, and they can't or paint it pink, so they can't, so they buy a Lamborghini, okay, they buy only a regini. They can't afford the lamborghini, so they buy a honda or a lotis, or something else like. A liter bike or a six second car, there's a six second car.The problem is there are a couple not many, but a couple of electric cars.In which case they're just faster. One has to make the decision. Do you want a hand built antique trumpet, or do you want a cheap Chinese Trump it? In which case when you break it lose it or have it stolen you can simply replace it with the same exact thing. These are the pros and cons of an engineer choosing a sound system.



Then we get to sound quality of which case certain people in certain areas of the world, prefer certain sounds. The sound system in France doesn't work in South Korea or Thailand it just doesn't, it? Doesn't sound good to them, doesn't mean they don't enjoy. It doesn't mean they don't use it. It just sounds different. Listen to the French speak French in the Vietnamese speak Vietnamese. They audibly just don't sound the same, but the words have the same meaning. A door is a door an apples and apple.A beer is a beer.



The other problem is with the investors of the sound companies, bigger sound companies with boards of directors. Analyze the loudspeakers and say we want something more reliable because we don't trust you as an engineer. Because we have insecurities, we don't trust you to provide good quality. Hi SPL unintelligible sound systems, so we rely on JBL elect your voice or other similar companies, whereas a smaller company, we'll take a risk and purchase an early liner rate from Duran audio in which case they predicted the steerability of sound at. Least a decade before everyone else. And choose loudspeakers such as the outline g t o, which still has the only capability of hitting the top of the rocks in red rocks.



Personally i can relate 25 years ago when I purchased my first MP3 player. I wanted an ipod.Everybody was having ipods, I chose an i river. The eye river what's smaller? Use a regular u s b mini connector could record an input and had an f.M radio built in. The funny thing was I never used it because the gooey didn't exist. If you wanted the user interaction, you had to buy the ipod. So for me, I ended up buying twice because because I made a mistake. People do the same thing and make mistakes. All the time in stadium sound systems in which case four million dollars gets wasted and a stadium.Gets stuck with a bad sound system for twenty years.



If you watch the movie ford verse ferrari, that's the same problem that the executives we're doing that to the audio engineers


The biggest problem I have is that the prediction platforms are useless. Junk waste of money and not useful. But as we see in texas, my problem is my problem.And my problem is not your problem.