outdoor audition


I have recently read in the Decware forum about setting up your system outdoors. The idea being, getting an idea about how reflections, both good and bad affect your system. Things like phase canceling come to mind. I would think that bass in particular would be greatly deminished. Clearly volume levels would be down as well. My speakers are rather large, the main reason I have not tried this. Any thoughts on what this test should prove?

thanks, Paul
pmwoodward

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I actually used Maggies outdoors once...set them up for a party. As I recall, they sounded OK, but the volume was way down. (Maybe because it was a party we wanted the music too loud).

I have heard of testing box speakers by burying them in sand, pointing up, and then evaluating their sound signature using microphones suspended in the air over them. If you are in the process of developing a new speaker design such a test might the valuable, and much less costly than an anechoic chamber.