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
 DS> Well I'm a volunteer and I don't have a degree in sound, but I have
 DS> been around sound systems as a musician for 25 years, and audio has
Still, I'd guess you know the type of church volunteer I meant.  
 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
 DS> Fortunately in this case the church actually has some nice equipment,
 DS> such as EV, Crown, QSC, Rane, but there are no names visable on the
It happens, though it's amazing how low priority good speech intelligibility 
is to many churches, as well as how poorly installed some systems with decent 
equipment may be.  
 DS> hung from the ceiling and are spread out in a semi-circle to cover the
 DS> room, with 2 bass bins and 4 mid/high cabinets. The mid/high cabinets
 DS> have a nice sound, but I don't like the bass sound, as it is very
 DS> subdued and indistinct - maybe that is what churches like?
Hardly.  Some cathedrals are designed for long reverberation times with 
unreinforced choirs and organs.  They're usually a pain for sermons, and lend 
themselves to distributed speaker systems.  Intelligibility from 
reinforcement audience members don't fully distinguish from direct sound is 
the goal.  
 TS> Dare I mention architectural acoustics,
 TS> and differences between music fidelity
 TS> and speech intelligibility?
 DS> That is the real problem, and you can read about it a bit more in a
 DS> previous message.
Simply deadening things as your other post suggests can be a poor solution, 
depending on other factors.  Controlling live and dead surfaces is complex 
enough it's not a good do it yourself job, though substantial consulting and 
treatment addressing those issues can get expensive fast if qualified 
engineering services are used.  That leaves considering work arounds, as 
suggested in my previous message.  The sharper band amp is a poor solution.  
Terry
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