are your speakers in the right spot?
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What we are not going to do
× Te ll you if your spe ake rs are in the right
spot
× S e ll you a brand of spe ake rs
× Lis te n for you
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What we will try to do
E d ucate You
O ffe r Tips & Te chnique s
S ugge st how you lis te n to your sound
syste m in your e nvironm e nt
Q &A
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What can be changed?Place m e nt Arch ite cture S yste m
Alignm e nt
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System Alignment Goals
• Ple ase the Aud ie nce
• Ple ase the Te chnical Artis t
• Ple ase the Pe rform e rs & Pre se nte rs
• E lim inate S ound R e late d D is tractions
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Big Ideas
C ove rage Patte rnsInte ractions
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Loudspeaker Interactions
• What is an inte raction?
• Place Inte ractions whe re pe ople will not be
• G oal is U niform ity
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InteractionsMore Powe r
Le ss C larity
C om b F ilte ring
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Coverage Patterns
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Inverse Square LawEvery doubling in distance from an audio source will decrease the SPL level by 6db.
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Inverse Square Law
20ft 40ft80ft100db 94db88db
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Inverse Square Law
30ft100db
60ft
94db
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Speaker
Coverage Patterns
Speaker
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Vertical Coverage
30’ 60’1 20’
1 00d b
94d b
88d b
-3d b
97d b
-6d b
82d b
-9d b
91 d b
-6d b
88d b
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Horizontal Coverage
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Horizontal Coverage
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Coverage Patterns
• S poke s on the Whe e l C once pt
• S te re o vs . Mono
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Horizontal Coverage
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Subwoofers
• C oupling
• Bunke rs
• Im age D is tortion
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EQ
• Ne w Te chnology + Be tte r U nd e rstand ing =
C le an S late S pe ake rs
R oom R e sonance s
You cannot E Q tim e
S pe ake r C oupling in Lowe r Fre qs
E Q is the final p ie ce of the puzzle
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Professional Help
• Training & E xpe rie nce
• Analys is Me asure m e nt E qu ipm e nt
• R e se arch by vis iting ve nue s the y have
tune d and lis te n
• Ask que stions
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Q&A
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