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Post Subject: VolumePosted by Paul S on: 8/31/2009
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One basic requirement of "Pro" speakers is that they play LOUD, preferably day after day (night after night), without blowing up. Most pro gear is designed with volume (power handling) and durability as the first considerations, and the "sound man" is generally left to fend for himself in order to adapt the pro gear to a given use or venue. While home hi-fi dweebs might futz with the gear itself, many professional soundmen use "outboard" equipment to create and/or shape the sound the way they want it, within the constraints that time and circumstance may afford.
A friend who tours the country with different headliners prides himself on his abilitity to cobble togetner a working operation under any real-world "impossible" conditions. Needless to say, he has only a nominal interest in home hi-fi and the last time I heard "music" playing at his house it sounded awful. Still, he is in high demand by touring bands because of his special expertise in meeting "pro" requirements with "pro" gear.
Basically, Sound per se never factored much in "pro" speakers. I started out with "theater" A7 500s that had their hi-fi butts kicked by the original Advents, IMO, apart from dynamics, of course (except that even here I could offerr some ideas about "dynamics".
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