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<blockquote data-quote="Carl Klinkenborg" data-source="post: 217281" data-attributes="member: 12770"><p>If the budget permits, your multiple system approach should be a winner. The calculation of the most important 'critical distance' (that imaginary line where direct and reverberant sound levels become equal) is quite beyond me, but I know it to be, well, critical in this installation! Distributed ceiling-mounted speakers would a good option for general sound reinforcement, but a 'gig' system at one end of a hall like this is always going to sound pretty shabby at the other. Length-wise, what percentage of the hall would be filled in the latter scenario?</p><p>I was involved in a sound reinforcement system in Westminster Abbey (UK) and the slim vertically-mounted column speakers employed multiple drivers phased to direct the sound downwards so as to reduce excitation of the reverberant space. Whilst you don't have the ceiling height of a cathedral (!) you do have better acoustic control, when directivity of the gig system less important but is only going to help matters in favour of arrays by pushing the critical distance further from the stage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carl Klinkenborg, post: 217281, member: 12770"] If the budget permits, your multiple system approach should be a winner. The calculation of the most important 'critical distance' (that imaginary line where direct and reverberant sound levels become equal) is quite beyond me, but I know it to be, well, critical in this installation! Distributed ceiling-mounted speakers would a good option for general sound reinforcement, but a 'gig' system at one end of a hall like this is always going to sound pretty shabby at the other. Length-wise, what percentage of the hall would be filled in the latter scenario? I was involved in a sound reinforcement system in Westminster Abbey (UK) and the slim vertically-mounted column speakers employed multiple drivers phased to direct the sound downwards so as to reduce excitation of the reverberant space. Whilst you don't have the ceiling height of a cathedral (!) you do have better acoustic control, when directivity of the gig system less important but is only going to help matters in favour of arrays by pushing the critical distance further from the stage. [/QUOTE]
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