The music can stick to your ribs, The sound system should be transparent. The definition of distortion is some charactoristic of the component that alters the signal as it passed from input to output. It should be about the music and not about the technology. My idea is that even if the music is controlled or shaped it should appear as if it is not.

What an interesting idea. Like a home theater have a center channel for the dialog. This would eliminate phaseing and nodes in critical areas and reduce articulation loss. A human voice, unamplified comes from a single point. How can we expect our hearing apparatus to figure out what this "coming from everywhere" sound means? The multipath reverberations would increase the points of origen. This is a recipe for mud. . In my own small church (a few years ago) we put up a central cluster

T he process that colterphoto1 is talking about is "masking" if two sources have the same sets of harmonics then only the louder one is heard clearly. This could be the reason for your problem. The answer is changing the tambour(sp?) of the source by equilizing them so that everything in the mix has a unique harmonic signature. But if the problem is articulation loss (the consonants in speach) then I think the solution is solving multi path issues. If sound is bouncing off the parallel

I was very taken with the design of the Pompideau Center in Paris a few decades ago. One of the professional journals reported on their computer controlled variable acoustic sound absorbtive/reflective system. This idea has been cooking in my brain for at least 30 years. The computer controlled servo motors just made the auditorium easy to tune. One could manually turn acoustic panels for a less than high tech and less expensive system. As I understand the Live End Dead End acoustic design (LEDE

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