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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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The trouble is Bill that in this country 'good' reproduced music
equals bass. Ever been into Halfords at a weekend?

I suspect that most people listening to reproduced music have
never been to a live concert - and specifically NOT a pop concert
but rather something like an orchestra, jazz, choral+organ, etc.

For the same reason continental (i.e. European) hi-fi doesn't
sell so well over here because they don't have the same
preoccupation with bass, rather with music as it sounds in
reality.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com