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[Gary Fitzpatrick]

Hi,

I am speccing a new speaker system for a church. The electronics system has already been pretty much decided (A BSS Soundweb system with all AKG gooseneck microphones).

The church in question is 55 feet long, 24 feet high, and eves are 20 feet high. Main application will be speech, with a little light music. Would normally have specced a pair of JBL CBT50 speakers, but a distributer has suggested a pair of Tannoy I9 speakers. Coming in at roughly the same price, and I like the sound of both. Which would you prefer/recommend?

[Ivan Beaver]

Hi,

I am speccing a new speaker system for a church. The electronics system has already been pretty much decided (A BSS Soundweb system with all AKG gooseneck microphones).

The church in question is 55 feet long, 24 feet high, and eves are 20 feet high. Main application will be speech, with a little light music. Would normally have specced a pair of JBL CBT50 speakers, but a distributer has suggested a pair of Tannoy I9 speakers. Coming in at roughly the same price, and I like the sound of both. Which would you prefer/recommend?

Since speech is your main usage, I would suggest a CENTER speaker system for several reasons.

First it will be clearer than a "spaced pair" of speakers since your brain likes a single source of sound for speech-not multiple.

Second, it will pull the image to the center of the stage-which is where the people are likely to be.

In CHurches- my GO TO- is a center speaker that either covers the entire room or at least most of it.

If it does not cover the whole room-I add a couple of fill speakers for the seats down front on the left and right sides.

Of course any speaker system should be modeled for coverage.

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