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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 113136" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: Small install spkrs with narrow coverageAgreed.While the idea of delaying the ceiling speakers &quot;seems&quot; like a good idea (as long as you keep going in the same direction) it is NOT.&nbsp; This is because the downfiring speakers are not pointed in the same direction that the delay would be&nbsp; (ie further away gets more delay).&nbsp; But when you move closer to the non delayed speaker-and still hear the delayed speaker-the delay time is wrong.&nbsp; There is no way to set it right.But there are also other issues to be considered.&nbsp; Lets say you have a stage and a ceiling distributed&nbsp; system.&nbsp; Maybe the ceiling in the room was very low.If you don&#039;t delay the furthest speakers from the stage-then if somebody hits a snare drum (for example) you would hear the amplified sound first then the acoustic sound.&nbsp; This is not good.So sometimes a set of compromises has to be struck-and often it is not easy to figure out what may be best.As with all things-there are advantages and disadvantages to every approach.&nbsp; And the designer has to look at various options and consider exactly how the system will be used to get the best &quot;overall&quot; performance.And sometimes you simply can&#039;t win or get it right-so it is what it is.&nbsp; And often the reason for a bad overall sound experience is that people are trying to do &quot;sound&quot; in a room that was not designed for sound, so there is only so much you can do.I have told people &quot;build me a room that is designed for performance and I will give you a better result&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 113136, member: 30"] Re: Small install spkrs with narrow coverage Agreed. While the idea of delaying the ceiling speakers "seems" like a good idea (as long as you keep going in the same direction) it is NOT. This is because the downfiring speakers are not pointed in the same direction that the delay would be (ie further away gets more delay). But when you move closer to the non delayed speaker-and still hear the delayed speaker-the delay time is wrong. There is no way to set it right. But there are also other issues to be considered. Lets say you have a stage and a ceiling distributed system. Maybe the ceiling in the room was very low. If you don't delay the furthest speakers from the stage-then if somebody hits a snare drum (for example) you would hear the amplified sound first then the acoustic sound. This is not good. So sometimes a set of compromises has to be struck-and often it is not easy to figure out what may be best. As with all things-there are advantages and disadvantages to every approach. And the designer has to look at various options and consider exactly how the system will be used to get the best "overall" performance. And sometimes you simply can't win or get it right-so it is what it is. And often the reason for a bad overall sound experience is that people are trying to do "sound" in a room that was not designed for sound, so there is only so much you can do. I have told people "build me a room that is designed for performance and I will give you a better result". [/QUOTE]

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