"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Wally
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
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It's all calibrated with the indubitably dubious power of the human
lug-'ole - but it's my lug-'ole, and that's the one that matters. :-)
My impression of the Behringer is that it's essentially flat - without a
set of before and after measurements, I'm assuming that the feeling of
better clarity and improved bass is down to having more power available,
and perhaps splitting bass and mid/top to separate amps.

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If the results sound better to you, that is fair enough as you have a
result you prefer. For that your lug-ole is king.

However it means that if that *is* the reason, then similar results might
be obtained by much cheaper and easier means. This may not matter to you
at
this point, but if it were the case, knowing this might save others time
and money. :-)

I'm not in a position to give any results yet, but I am experimenting along
the lines of Wally's ideas. For me they were a necessity because of the
need to fill a larger room. I was not able to get the power I needed from
a single twin amp so decided to try out using three. I have a Behringer
3400 XO and so far am very pleased. Its not there acoustically. I'm using
a Cyrus preamp feeding the XO which drives two InterMn500W
amps, one for two-way Mordaunt-Short floorstanders for the mid
and one for the sub. I am about to use two tweeters run off a NAD
amplifier in addition to the two in the MSs. The MS top will be rolled off.
I
don't know what crossover frequency I will use. And yes, I will be
assessing by ear. If I don't get what I want after playing I'll hook
up a sig gen and use a level meter to find out what's wrong with the
response curve.

It'll be a week or so. I'll post anything useful that I discover.

Peter Scott