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    How to measure beam pattern/dispersion?

    Thanks for the helpful suggestion. Up until now I've been imagining walking around with the microphone stand while the speaker is stationary. But it will be much simpler just to rotate the speaker. Reflections will behave differently but as long as reflecting surfaces are somewhat farther...
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    How to measure beam pattern/dispersion?

    Didn't mention: Small speakers at the parabola focus. So these are meant to create narrow sound beams.
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    How to measure beam pattern/dispersion?

    I'm building some 22 inch parabolic reflectors (out of papier-mâché, no less) and I want to measure their far-field beam pattern. Also testing a few options for driver and amplifier. Baseline plan is they will run from 2 AA batteries so only one pair of signal wires comes from the source...
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    Hello and directions please

    I built the AudioSmile Little British Monitor II. I was one of the KickStarter supporters for it. So far I'm very happy with them. They replaced a pair of JBL Control 1 backed by a Crown K2 amp. Not fancy speakers but I'd been using them for so long I could work with them. Now I'm...
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    Hello and directions please

    Aloha all, I'm a Software engineer, live sound engineer, bridge player, cook, dog walker, electronic musician, guitarist, DJ. Roughly in that order. Though the pandemic has shaken things up a bit this year: no live sound, bridge is all online, teaching my nephew guitar over FaceTime...
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