Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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On a recent system calibration of a church I made the mistake of attempting to level set and time align a center main speaker at its vertical top instead of off-axis position. This was complicated by the fact that the center main looks very much like a center fill.
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