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Hotel Room Confessions - Best Sound at a Show?

I’m curious to know if line arrays and/or tuneable subs make speakers able to sound great in terrible conditions. Or can horns be the ideal hotel room rondevouz? A lot of people come up with a list of best sound, despite clearly terrible sounding rooms. They try to hear past what is assumed to be room problems.


I want to ask, if you have ever heard really amazing sound in a hotel room. Like, nothing needed to be made better, you’d be happy listening there forever. If so, what were the speakers you heard?

I've heard RELATIVELY stellar performances but I've never heard a hotel room sound even as good as my current, pitiful setup.


Have you? Did a line array, ESL or horn show how it could utterly tame the room and take you to heaven in a seedy hotel room with ugly carpets?
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Hotel Room Confessions
Alright! I confess. I haven't been to no audio shows in years.
OK!, I aint got no alibi. Yeah, I was there at the New York HiFi Show. Mid-90s. No, I can't recall WHAT year. The Big One in '96? Maybe, it could have been earlier by a year or so. Like I told you. You aint gonna get it outa me! I really don't remember... 

Anyhow, outa all da highfalutin' rooms, Threshold, Krell, ARC, CJ, Vandersteen...  The room I do remember is the Shahainian Room.
Sir Richard was spinning, classical of course. His speakers powered by Bedini. 

Maybe it was his omnidirectional design. Or, Mr. Shahainian's gentlemanly demeanor. But yeah, you got me. I remember. He was guilty of having the least ostentatious and one of the best sounding rooms there.

Agoners aren't really surprised that hotel rooms packed with chairs in a row, people milling about, noisily in and out, don't sound great.
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