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In Reply to: More.... posted by grhughes on January 14, 2007 at 07:59:42:
You may not want to hear it from me, but I believe that the basic definitions that both of you are using of "reinforcing" a 5000 seat auditorium are different. The fact is that some churches only need small speaker systems and little power because all they reinforce is a pastor and maybe a choir, while others put on something resembling a rock concert production every sunday that requires much more power and many more speakers to reinforce. I think the original question could have been much better answered by asking for more specifics on what the system would be used for.
Also, many installed PA systems don't have the capacity to reinforce an orchestra, and if an orchestra needs to be reinforced then it's not much of an orchestra. Their aim is to fill a room with sound, to be fully balanced with proper tone without any outside alteration to their sound.
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"Their aim is to fill a room with sound"Yes, by and large, distorted sound that is blurred, amorphous and smeared. This is driven by the business mode to sell. They want to sell speakers. The more they sell the better! I don't have anything to sell. MORE IS BETTER! SIZE MATTERS! Like a tone deaf rockster who took the Johnny three chord guitar course, now calls him/her self a "musician" and can't surround themselves with enough power and/or speakers. They have learned to like distortion. They have been mushroomed in a culture of distortion. But they and I know what I like and it a free country, unless G.W. decides to make himself KING.
Personally, I wouldn't attend a church that allowed secular musical instruments into God's house. But that's just me. I'm a traditionalist and I believe that MORE is not always the answer. Sometimes LESS is MORE! Making a joyful noise might go a little too far and certainly can be SECULAR!
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
Non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
I meant the aim of an orchestra, not of a PA system.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess. My father said basically the same thing about the music I played when I started out 40 years ago, and his father before him no doubt said the same thing about those crazy jitterbuggers and that cacophony called 'jazz'. No doubt there were many opera fans who were aghast when that young upstart Mozart came along. In fact, I think it was Wolfgang Amadeus himself who first coined the phrase: "If it's too loud you're too old".
I agree with Louis Armstrong. "There are two types of music; good and bad!"I can listen to everything from Mozart to country as long as it's good and realistic without distortion. From Schubert's 9th in one listening segment to Ricky Skaggs in the next. But I don't like distortion which is being sold as GOOD! And if I go to one of those churches for a wedding or funeral, I'll certainly bring my earplugs. And most "roadie" traveling shows are awful as well!
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
Non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
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