Plans for a new line array build
At last I have come to the end of this amazing thread!! I've spent a few hours each day the last week reading though it from the start, taking lots of notes. An amazing build with so much info and shared experience from the build and all those experiments.
The reason I got here is that me and my family in about six months will be moving to a new house and I have the opportunity to plan for a new listening area in our new living room. My current speaker, a WMTMW configuration I made some years ago, will simply take up to much space and I got the idea to build something with a less footprint integrated in the corners of the room on each side of a full wall book shelf, and at the same time getting the "best" sound of my life

While browsing around I ended up here and...wow!
My plan so far is to use 28 drivers a side, which will cover the full height of the room. It will be some time before I can actually start building the speakers, as the house is going through a total makeover for a few months at least. Wesayso and others have been so friendly answering questions here so I hope it is ok to ask some of my own as the work progresses. In time I will start my own building thread.
So, a few questions already:
I have a hard time deciding in signal/eq chain. As the setup will be serving not only my own listening sessions, but also as the main TV/entertaining setup for the rest of my family, I need lots of inputs from different sources to be handled by the eq (as for now a TV box, playstation, nintendo, CD player, a Bluesound music streamer, an Apple TV for movie rentals/Netflix...). Running JRiver on a computer seems a good choice, but it would be acting as a EQ/processor only and not a media source. I read somewhere that ASIO line-in could be used, but then I need some way to get all these media sources routed that way. Another solution I figured could be the
Ultimate preamp, but at a significant cost. And, besides, I already have an 8 ch Buffalo DAC I put together a few years ago. Any advice on this?
I have a few meters behind the listening spot to the back wall, so no very early reflections from that directions. Do you still think it would be a good thing to use the ambience speakers? As I understood, the your first reason to use Haas kickers was to create new "reflection" later in time to make the room sonically bigger?
Regarding the phantom center, I am thinking of using some kind of center speaker in order to fill the interference dips at a few kHz and up to improve the phantom center. I know you have been thinking about this also. How would you do to implement this? Do you think a single Vifa TC9 would do the job?
That is all for now, but I'm sure there will be lots of more questions later on..
Thank you again so much wesayso for sharing all this information, as well as you others that have been contributing so much in this thread.
Best regards,
Mattias