Hi Terry,
 TS> In other words, some oversimplified sales
 TS> literature to comfort people trying
 TS> to have incompetent volunteers pretend to
 TS> be able to handle things they should
 TS> contract out....
Well I'm a volunteer and I don't have a degree in sound, but I have
been around sound systems as a musician for 25 years, and audio has
been my hobby for that same period of time. The church did contract out
this system years ago, but my ears tell me, something is wrong, and a
new speaker system is not the total answer.
 TS> Some parts of what you quoted aren't too
 TS> far off as simple explanations.  The
 TS> above seems to be the heart of the
 TS> instructions, and is quite simply wrong.
Which is why I decided on my own to ask for a second opinion, since
everybody else was willing to take that statement at face value.
 TS> utterly absurd.  It is interesting to
 TS> note that they likely suggest tests with
 TS> speakers disconnected to avoid being
 TS> blamed for destroying garbage better
 TS> taken direct to the dumpster as found in
 TS> many churches, while suggesting a
 TS> procedure ripe for toasting mid/high
Fortunately in this case the church actually has some nice equipment,
such as EV, Crown, QSC, Rane, but there are no names visable on the
main speakers, so I can't tell much about them. The main speakers are
hung from the ceiling and are spread out in a semi-circle to cover the
room, with 2 bass bins and 4 mid/high cabinets. The mid/high cabinets
have a nice sound, but I don't like the bass sound, as it is very
subdued and indistinct - maybe that is what churches like?
 TS> Dare I mention architectural acoustics,
 TS> and differences between music fidelity
 TS> and speech intelligibility?
That is the real problem, and you can read about it a bit more in a
previous message.
... dschmoll@nyx.net (David Schmoll)
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