An appointment with the devil

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The story goes, that one day while I was doing a PA setup the neighbour was on a business phone call (I was thinking it'd be good to do this in the early afternoon when everyone was away)...

Little did I know that he was asked on the other end in which bar he was taking the call at that time of the day.....I was setting up the limiter on the setup and you can imagine how such a setup goes (I wear hearing protection for those). The idea is to attempt to play wannabe DJ (which is most of them in my book) and see whether the limiter works as it should.

[Timber_MG]

Pictures should say a lot. Blue is 1/3rd octave UN-gated response of my room at the listening position and black is the same without the direct sound (i.e. reverberation only). This is definitely not a 8"/1" speaker  :twisted:

[Timber_MG]

This here plots the energy content of 10ms worth of first reflections, roughly equivalent to the haas integration time in the midband. This system barely needs any first reflections attenuated, becasue they are both correlated to on axis response and fairly highly attenuated.

My room is a little dead for my liking atm, but it sounds OK, if a little dry. I take my ~40 square room anyday over a smaller one though.

I am still playing around with the band 1k5-4k5 (a little hot still for now, but it brings out some extra definition on sax and female vocals) and some lower midrange "issues", though those are mostly room related. The system is very, very neutral sounding and doesn't pull much attention to itself.

The speakers are toed in heavily, approximately 20-30 degrees from the listening position. They work best this way. They have headphone-esque dynamics and don't sound particularily loud. I might do a distortion plot just for the heck of it in the week (106dB sweeps don't make one good friends with the family) but I can guarantee that it is just not there. They also show poor recordings for what they are.