Here we go again...
They can if the phase relationships when put together are similar. But nobody is giving us those measurements, so the best we can do is try it and see if it works unless we have the equipment to test them accurately. And trust me, I've heard as many a hideous combination of mixed cabs as I've heard good ones, even from the same company's same line. OTOH, the only bad matching cab rigs I've ever heard are ones that start with bad sounding cabs to begin with.
No, I won't trust you... I'll trust me. Because MY EXPERIENCE DIFFERS FROM YOURS. I can't be more blunt about that. You don't have to believe that... but you clearly don't have MY experience nor needs identical to mine.
Real world listening pretty much has exposed every single thing that Bill Fitzmaurice ever told us to be true as far as I'm concerned. However hardline you perceive a guy like Bill, his info is dead-on accurate. Now what ISN'T accurate that Bill did was to poop on designs that didn't fall into his paradigm. For example, I love 810's even though they beam, and I couldn't care less about it, whereas guys like Bill consider them inferior. But he's right about the beaming, so it never bothered me that he pooped on the design.
Sorry but how insightful is pooping on a design
THAT WORKS FOR MUSICIANS? Live performance is not a lab. Personal preferences apparently aren't supposed to matter. It's like telling someone who likes cheap basses they're wrong because technically speaking a more expensive one should be preferred. That simply ignores ALL of the factors that go into equipment choices. And acts as if
everyone does the same gig with the same requirements. We know that's not the case but some choose to ignore that basic fact anyway.
That's what people like him continually seem to ignore. And if beaming does occur but you still love the cab and use it successfully the problem is...? I'm not particularly fond of old school 810 cabs but I'm not going to tell other people that based on what I like or think I know they shouldn't use what they like and are somehow ignorant for likiing it.
I love having people speaking plain fact about gear and it doesn't offend me if I get the truth. Once you get the real facts, you can make up your own mind and do what you want. But I don't ever want to see the truth get shouted down, even if it flies in the face of what I previously believed as gospel. There's a hell of a lot of BS floating around and the manufacturers are in no hurry to set us straight.
Yet you don't seem to be bothered by the plain truth that mixed cabs can and more important DO work for people other than yourself being shouted down? You've replaced one gospel for another one that can be particularly narrowminded. And BS? That isn't restricted to one camp.
I remember that thread. The one thing Bill didn't account for is that some folks might like it anyway, but his info about it was factual and pretty well dead-on as far as I remember. I came to the conclusion that it wasn't for me based on the info the company told us and what other light Bill could shed on it. I have no interest in cabs like that while you apparently do. That's cool...but it doesn't make the info given any less accurate.
No, you don't remember that thread. Bill had nothing to do with it and as I mentioned, it was about a cab I recently bought and currently use.
I love to look like a bigshot on the internet! But I will also listen and learn when presented with a greater mind than mine in an area I admittedly don't know a lot about. And I will be the first to admit when I drop the ball. If more people were as great as I am, this world would be a better place instead of the ticking time bomb it is.
Yes, the big man on the internet thing seems to trump having a reasonable discussion.
As far as dropping the ball and admitting it, this is simply not true though I guess it's nice to think that about yourself. Here's an example: you and I KNOW that the vast majority of manufacturer's specs are sorely lacking in detail. Yet in the face of all that you don't know you'd still proclaim that you know what a cab will sound like based only on what you think you've learned here from the greater mind(s) and what little the manufacturer put in writing. And I have no doubt that you know you can't because you don't have anywhere enough real data to base an informed opinion on. Occassionally you've even admitted that and then go right back to the same old rant anyway. I honestly don't get it.
That's why I appreciate people like Duke Lejeune who not only understand the science, they also don't pretend that actual listening isn't as important component as it is. That they have no need for experimentation because they already know what every possible implementation could do.
