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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 140606" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: Infocomm???Yeah that also.HOWEVER-it QUICKLY became evident that MANY MANY people have no idea what a &quot;line array&quot; is-what it looks like-the principals behind it, what is NOT a line array and so forth.I would say a large majority simply think that if boxes are stacked on top of each other, they are a &quot;line array&quot;.They don&#039;t know why they want one-only that the name is &quot;cool and popular&quot;.This is evidenced by the social media comments and by talking to people at the show.After this last week, it just reinforces my belief that most people can not tell you why a &#039;line array&quot; is &quot;supposed&quot; to be better than some other source-just that you &quot;should&quot; be using one.The marketing is doing well-------------If you don&#039;t understand the basic principals, then how are you supposed to be able to make comparisons?&nbsp; Much less being able to not get mislead by the &quot;hype&quot;.It is real easy to draw &quot;pretty pictures&quot; of how the coverage works.&nbsp; To bad that in the real world it is not that way.It is interesting the number of products that are &quot;line arrays&quot; that allow the user to &quot;simply point the sound&quot; to where they &quot;think&quot; it will go.&nbsp; Never mind the REAL interactions and pattern changes are NOT that they &quot;think&quot; is happening, but as long as they &quot;think&quot; something is happening-then it &quot;must&quot; be good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />(It still amazes me as to the lack of basic understanding of how sound works in our industry-even among &quot;professionals&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 140606, member: 30"] Re: Infocomm??? Yeah that also. HOWEVER-it QUICKLY became evident that MANY MANY people have no idea what a "line array" is-what it looks like-the principals behind it, what is NOT a line array and so forth. I would say a large majority simply think that if boxes are stacked on top of each other, they are a "line array". They don't know why they want one-only that the name is "cool and popular". This is evidenced by the social media comments and by talking to people at the show. After this last week, it just reinforces my belief that most people can not tell you why a 'line array" is "supposed" to be better than some other source-just that you "should" be using one. The marketing is doing well------------- If you don't understand the basic principals, then how are you supposed to be able to make comparisons? Much less being able to not get mislead by the "hype". It is real easy to draw "pretty pictures" of how the coverage works. To bad that in the real world it is not that way. It is interesting the number of products that are "line arrays" that allow the user to "simply point the sound" to where they "think" it will go. Never mind the REAL interactions and pattern changes are NOT that they "think" is happening, but as long as they "think" something is happening-then it "must" be good. :(( It still amazes me as to the lack of basic understanding of how sound works in our industry-even among "professionals". [/QUOTE]

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