Hi All, thanks for the replys.
Ivan has been a God send and as soon as I can get the leadership to entertain an upgrade, we'll be making some changes.
Ivan, thanks again. The idea isn't dead completely, I'm still waiting for the rep to get me $$$ and then I want to set up a demo with him to "show" the leadership why this is necessary... Stay tuned.
Brad, I've been trying to work with JBL in geting a room plot done and the guy I've been speaking with says he's working on it but I still haven't gotten anything. However during one of our conversations he did tell me he sees that we do need a "delay" speaker in the center, as we have them now, to get coverage but that makes me a bit sceptical since the room is only 55' deep and the Xti powered JBL's have plenty of output...
My minimum goal in asking for an EASE model is to help me affirm that I can get better coverage and less interference with our existing gear and help shape my new deployment plan. IMO, I can't see the need, especially in the shallow center of the room, to have a pair of delay speakers, which BTW, aren't delayed at all
Ultimately I'd love to be able to pry the checkbook open to bring someone in and measure the room, test the system and then help us address the interference issues but I'm having difficulty in getting the people above me to realize that's the best solution and in the end may be the best expenditure of $$$.
I know there are some "what if" scenarios but what I'm really looking for is the best possible layout given the current gear and room and then we can see how much of an improvement we'll see.
I know there's much more involved, I was really justhoping to get some suggestion as to best possbile scenarios for speaker deployment. I'd love to have some "pretty pictures" to give visualization to what's happening and how it'll be corrected but that'd be icing on the cake.
I'm pretty decent at setting up a portable sound system and getting the best I can from it given room, etc... but an install is above me. Before I start moving speakers, especially since I broke my leg lest week and had to have surgery and no I'm restricted to ZERO weight bearing for 8 weeks, I'd like to have a good jumping off point for a plan.
I'm sure I could re-hang the boxes by "sight & sound" and get a number of the issues corrected but I'm a little more hopeful in getting us as good as we can get until the proposed expansion.
Does that better explain what I'm asking? Sorry if it's a jibberish mess, these pain killers are doing an amazing job of helping me elude lucidity...
For anyone interested, here's the room layout, speaker deployment and pics with issues listed.
http://www.simplicityentertainment.com/church