ABSTRACT
Wouldn’t it be depressing and embarrassing to learn we had equalized speakers which had polarity reversals in the wiring, losses due to unbalanced cables, or large amounts of distortion and other assorted unexpected “features.” Perhaps an entire series of decisions had been predicated upon the response of a speaker that had cardboard left by the scenery painter in front of it (this really happened). When these types of challenges are found at the beginning they are part of the process of discovery. When they are found near the conclusion they are an embarrassment and huge loss of time. If they are discovered after we have signed off on the job, we may soon find ourselves asking, “would you like fries with that?” Our entire system calibration will come crashing down like a house of cards over false assumptions that should have been discovered
before safety cables were tied in to the rigging or settings were input into a processor.
