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jessie.dazzle wrote:

I'm not entirely satisfied that this single 40Hz horn was properly loading the room, which has a cubic volume not far from what I would consider ideal for such a system …. However, the horn was sitting in the center of the room, not coupled with 3 walls as intended…

Jessie, a single might be assessed only in context of a single horn loading the room.  The rules of the game with the whole system are different. It is not only about the fact that the whole system has second horn. The people who did not play with setting up the Macondo like installations do not underrated what kind expressive capacity Macondo topology offers. People buy Wilson for instance, put it in right location as here OK sound, but this sound has no reference to room. Then they walk and tell to each other stories about fat sound or thin sound…

With Macondo approach it does not work this way as there is no default “right” output from the channel. Since the channels are co-axed and time-aligned, used drivers that do not need any correction in crossovers then the output of the drivers is very much open to the need of a given room. The most important is that the channels are mixable and listing how the room responses it possible to write up absolutely any about of sonic weigh at any sonic region you wish, and you do it with ZIRO negative consequences.

You might combine the out of midbass and upperbass and make them to work together an octave or a half. You might make the fundamentals channel to care the MF lower knee if you wish. You can moderate sound in respect to how your room actually responses and if you have very well defined objectives how you what it to sound then you can literally to conduct the channels and make them to sound in the way you feel they shall be.  I do not even mention what capacity the DSETs offer with Macondo …

So, wait until you set all the system up – I am sure you will be able to compensate with channels mixing what you feel is not “loaded enough” now. There is also a subject of “masking of room gaps” that I did not even touch….

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