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Paul S wrote:

The more-driver/more-power method has in fact been used to very good effect in rooms that +/- eat bass.  The set-up I remember had about 8 515s per side and LOTS of power that I suppose it did not actually use very often; but it did provide nice, fairly seamless LF. And I might also say that IMO it is really no more difficult to create more LF with more drivers and more power than it is to deal with tons of LF in a super-solid room that "conserves" it.  When was the last time anyone heard good LF in a solid concrete room?  Some "give" might afford a chance to sort of sneak up on the LF, add it on as desired. "Shores" would be a great way to tune a raised floor, as long as one had access to a slab or the ground under the floor in question.  In fact, it might be the best of all worlds if one were able to go back and forth between tuning the room and developing the LF speakers.  I am not at all sure I would try a LF horn, under any circumstances; too much risk.  But regardless of the topology one chose, the "tune-able" room would be a Godsend, IMO. Best reagrds, Paul S

The worst ever acoustical qualities ever encountered was in a unfinished cement basement and floor, and I am not exactly sure what the sound was doing in this room, but it was completely untameable in every way, for it to be a "sound of normal" and where a subfloor of 1 layer live Plywood covered by 1 layer heavier density waferboard, this 2 ply floor over 2x4 sleepers laid flat, and insulation/drywall, transformed this pityful cement soundhell into something completely different, my really excellent studio! A live floor is not a big deal, resonances are sometimes very "helpful", but "dead" thing are best left buried. This effect happens continuoiusly at the Community Arena here where concerts are held, reverbations create weird sonic behavior, and musicians and soundmen meet the "sound of doom and total wildness". So funny to hear the line arrays "hit the wall of reverb into their faces", and nobody knows who can win?  

As most things, too much of a good thing, is a problem. Opinion, not legally binding in any way.

j. 

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