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?
erik_squires

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Randy is a zen master and gets great sound adjacent to a yoga studio at his store in Santa Monica. I am a happy customer of his, and a select few other dealers w similar hearing, setup skills, and the attention to detail required to get that last 1% out of the system in the room. Glad to hear a few of us chase and try to better the sound he achieves. I attend shows, have helped demo gear at CES when it was at The Drake and do a bit of setup optimization around the USA, yes Eric 11 bands of bass EQ matter big time in a hotel room or better...,