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Hello there,

We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the
place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub.
There’s something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly, and
it is very annoying. It’s like trying to have a quiet pint near a
large noisy machine. This is not what we expect from a grown-up
country pub. In the front room the midrange and top are more-or-less
inaudible, but the bass is there thudding away. Certain frequencies
hit the resonance of the two connected rooms and that sounds awful.
I’m guessing that you have a bass box or something that’s wrongly set
up. Those things are only supposed to take over at frequencies below
those that the normal speakers can handle, but yours seems to be
reproducing the higher bass notes, and at greatly exaggerated volume.
If my guess is right you need to adjust it to ignore everything above
about 125Hz, and by turning it down. Better still, remove it
completely. Music in pubs (if we have to have it at all) should be
background, but the bass in your pub dominates the place. Perhaps you
should try to contain the music in the back room, by positioning the
speakers in the back room to face away from the front room, and by
removing the bass, which can’t really be contained if the two rooms
are linked, as they have to be. Your front room, after all, is for
eating, relaxing, and chatting. The atmosphere’s wrong with that boom
boom boom going on.

Incidentally it was also pretty strange when the TV sound and the
music were on at the same time. It was a terrible racket, what with
the vevuselas and all!

I hope you realise that we aren’t just being clever. By taking the
trouble to write this email we sincerely want to help you make your
pub and campsite even better. We’ll see you later in the year (if
you’ll have us!).

Cheers

Bill and Hil Wright
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