2011 Kansas City Subwoofer Meet Results - Page 4

Only the captivator's testing...When you had to close your eyes to avoid being hit from flying dust and debris, and catch your balance again after staring at the projector screen vibrating around like it was involved in an earthquake.

There just wasn't enough time to do blind testing. So no, none of it was done blind. We went from 10AM to 10:30PM as it was. It was a good day.

With the variances in responses on who liked what best, I wonder if it mattered enough to determine a different victor outside of the top two (which were in a different class) based on seating position alone? Like if I had sat in a different seat would I have liked the empire or HSU more than than the SVS? We did keep the same seating arrangement all day, so we heard accurately what each sub did from the same seat, but we didn't hear the differences that might have been occurring from chair to chair.

Here was our seating setup, perhaps tonight I'll try to draw out a actual diagram with truer measurements.


- Left Main -- Projector/sub -- Right Main -

----------------~10 foot-----------------

--- Randy - Echaot - Luke - Archaea ---

------------- ---~2 foot-----------------

--------Chirpie -- Jeff -- counsil ---------








carp sat in Randy's chair when he came over, because Randy had left for the evening. We put the projector directly beneath the screen, but Luke and I figured out later that night that Jeff was basically sitting in a null the entire evening. The cap sounded about 1/2 as loud right there as we walked around the room after wrapping up the regular judging. counsil was taking his spl measurements from one seat over from the apparent null that Jeff was sitting in. I'd have to think the front four seat were more or less about equivalent because I've played around a lot with moving various subs around in my room, and those four seat stay pretty flat on the FR graphs when the sub is in the center like we tested, but I will also note that carp and previously Randy's seat as carp pointed out to me sounded more bassy than the primary audessey configuration seat which echaot was sitting in. (My Jamo D7sub thread has details on this testing with Luke's ominimic)

Yeah Luke and I did it a month or so back using his omnimic. The FR was pretty decent (for my room anyway) in those first four leather seats. We didn't measure behind those seats next to the load bearing pole, where the second row of seating was established --- so if that was an even bigger null than the null that occurs everywhere else in my room --- I apologize to those who sat there.