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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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roberttcan
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I posted a review of the Toronto show in this thread:
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/audio-show

Honestly, I can't say that line arrays were noticeably better, and certainly I did not make any notes on them. Not many rooms running subs, so difficult to come to a conclusion, but though bass was no doubt impacted, I don't think that was the primary fault in most rooms. 
roberttcan
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I think it is a huge sign of respect to your potential customers when suppliers do that, so kudos to making the effort. 
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