Real World Gear: Large-Format Line Array Design & A Look At Recent Models
They’re powerhouses, and in many cases, are now much more than simply loudspeakers...
By PSW Staff • September 27, 2018Large-format line arrays deliver in terms of output, and in many cases, are now much more than simply loudspeakers, better described as integrated systems.
The vast majority of the models we’re presenting here incorporate dedicated power and DSP packages (onboard or rack mounted), and are outfitted with sophisticated control, networking, and optimization capabilities. Integral rigging is user-friendly and marked by precision and ease of use.
It’s still surprising to some that line arrays have been around for more that half of a century in the guise of column loudspeakers, and most of them in earlier days were voice-range only. Their application was generally for highly reverberant spaces, where a narrow vertical dispersion avoided exciting the reflective room boundaries and, as a result, improved intelligibility of the spoken word...
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