"By the way, if you listen to rock concert music, nothing beats big boxes with high efficiency 15 or 18 inch drivers, for the simple reason that these are exactly what you hear at the concert. Horn mids and tweeters also. IMHO, horrible, but accurate."
Often horrible, yes, but I have heard it done well both in smaller clubs and large stadiums in recent years. I had seats right in the "sweet spot" at the last Paul McCartney concert at FedEx Field in DC and the sound was the best I have ever heard at a large stadium event by far, quite good actually even by audiophile standards I would say. I hadn't been to a similar large stadium event in years because I had sworn them off years ago, bad sound quality being just one of the reasons. Those seats were not cheap though!
Speakers used were large and efficient no doubt in that venue. The sound "columns" on either side of the stage were I would guess 40-50' high and each consisted of many units/drivers functioning in an array.
I would guestimate that if the venue from where I sat, about two sections back dead center, were scaled down to fit into a decent sized home listening room, the speakers would stand ~ 6-7' tall and 2-3' wide and likely each be quite heavy still as well.
I also know of at least one local venue where name acts of all genres including Rock can be heard in an intimate club setting for very reasonable cost and sound quality is also top notch (still best in teh "sweet spot") having heard it from that sweet spot on multiple occasions.
BTw, can anyone guess what the good sounding seats in both large stadium and intimate club had in common other than being in the sweet spot?
Answer:
˙uoıʇɐʇs/sʎnƃ punos ǝɥʇ oʇ ǝsolɔ pǝʇɐɔol ǝɹǝʍ ʎǝɥʇ
Often horrible, yes, but I have heard it done well both in smaller clubs and large stadiums in recent years. I had seats right in the "sweet spot" at the last Paul McCartney concert at FedEx Field in DC and the sound was the best I have ever heard at a large stadium event by far, quite good actually even by audiophile standards I would say. I hadn't been to a similar large stadium event in years because I had sworn them off years ago, bad sound quality being just one of the reasons. Those seats were not cheap though!
Speakers used were large and efficient no doubt in that venue. The sound "columns" on either side of the stage were I would guess 40-50' high and each consisted of many units/drivers functioning in an array.
I would guestimate that if the venue from where I sat, about two sections back dead center, were scaled down to fit into a decent sized home listening room, the speakers would stand ~ 6-7' tall and 2-3' wide and likely each be quite heavy still as well.
I also know of at least one local venue where name acts of all genres including Rock can be heard in an intimate club setting for very reasonable cost and sound quality is also top notch (still best in teh "sweet spot") having heard it from that sweet spot on multiple occasions.
BTw, can anyone guess what the good sounding seats in both large stadium and intimate club had in common other than being in the sweet spot?
Answer:
˙uoıʇɐʇs/sʎnƃ punos ǝɥʇ oʇ ǝsolɔ pǝʇɐɔol ǝɹǝʍ ʎǝɥʇ