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In Reply to: RE: Tips for building speakers for an open room posted by Stephen K on September 3, 2007 at 23:06:37:
I'd still recommend that you take & upload a photo (start a new thread), and you will get better advice than mine, pro sound guys deal with these coverage issues all the time.
1) how many speakers should be used
I'd say a pair.
2) how should they be positioned
See my fine art :-)
The aim is to hear more direct sound from the speaker that is further away. This will give a reasonably balanced sound over a wide listening area.
3) what is the highest xo freq. at which the mid-high speakers should be crossed over to the subs
As low as you can manage, since the gap between the mid/highs and the sub(s) will be very large, assuming the sub(s) are at ground level.
4) how many subs should be used.
I'd say one would be fine, since it doesn't sound like a super-critical application... but more and bigger are always better, with subs.
==> something important you didn't mention is directivity / dispersion angle. I'd recommend that you do your own scale drawing to check (or use string lines to map out your terrace), but I'd guess 30-45 degrees of vertical dispersion would achieve my sketched coverage pattern, and 90-120 degrees horizontal (so you can get reasonable coverage out into the garden). Angle the speakers horizontally so that minimal sound "splashes" off the glass.
This type of directivity control cannot be achieved with a dome tweeter.
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