Many thanks to everyone (Eric, Josh, Jascha, Umashankar, Martin, Jim, Michael, Bo-Erik, Dave, Peter, Fons, and the other Michael... I hope I didn't forget someone) who took the time to share experience, there was a tremendous amount of posts!
It seems everyone goes "passive" when it comes to loudspeakers: I was almost sure that active monitors weren't the right way to achieve a portable setup, but I was asking because we already have some here. Anyway I'd rather go with some lightweight passive ones, because of all issues some of you explained (thanks to Dave Malham, I now know Ambisonics could be physically dangerous!). Regarding the wrong mixed-order setup, Martin was totally right of course (that's two more stands in my car, I'm considering buying a van now). The T-Amps look very promizing if they are so light (my back has harsh memories of some QSC amp racks, that's why active monitors looked so appealing!). About the lightning stands, this Sunday I also found some garden tent (or pergolas) poles that could be used instead of the Manfrottos, they are much cheaper and have a detachable (quite heavy) base. Some fabrication involved anyway, as many said before. After all, I'm almost sure there could be a small market for such setups. The only (pricey!) commercial solution I'm aware of is the Acousticurve (http://www.vrsonic.com/hardware/acousticurve). (by the way, is their so-called Wave Point Sampling _yet_ another Ambi-WFS avatar?). I'll go the artisanal way! Thanks again, Frank _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
