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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Morris" data-source="post: 141452" data-attributes="member: 652">Re: Infocomm???If for the sake of the discussion if I cut an SH10 in to 4 pieces so it will fit the boot of my car and then assemble the pieces together at the gig ... I think it will still work just as I did before I cut it up.Individually&nbsp; the pieces will be much more omni at low frequencies as you described just like the pieces of a fixed curvature array.&nbsp; To me each of the piece is just like one box from a fix curvature array ... and BTW fix curvature array can also be horizontal (e.g. L-Acoustc ARC&#039;s). The design goal for a fixed curvature array is for it to behave like one box, a point source. That&#039;s more or less the same goal for a variable curvature (line) array but when you add flexibility into the equations it comes with compromises. The angel is not fixed, you often have different numbers of boxes and there is not one single focal point etc. but as a compromise it works OK ... and as I said before some work better than others. To me its easy to stick it all in one box and get it to work, the real problem is producing a small manageable box that can be arrayed and adapted to many different situations.&nbsp; The compromise with Danley speaker is the lack of flexibility, the compromise with your typical line array is multiple arrivals etc.As I said above, each of those piece shown in the picture below is very similar to one box out of a fixed curvature array.&nbsp; In this case the array is optimized to used 4 boxes and provides 10 degrees of vertical coverage.&nbsp; It would still work with 2 or 3 pieces but there would be issues, less low frequency control and perhaps some lobbing etc., but when I got to the gig the ceiling was too low perhaps I would just leave the top box off ..... and think, what the heck, the gig is still going to be OK ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Peter Morris, post: 141452, member: 652"] Re: Infocomm??? If for the sake of the discussion if I cut an SH10 in to 4 pieces so it will fit the boot of my car and then assemble the pieces together at the gig ... I think it will still work just as I did before I cut it up. Individually the pieces will be much more omni at low frequencies as you described just like the pieces of a fixed curvature array. To me each of the piece is just like one box from a fix curvature array ... and BTW fix curvature array can also be horizontal (e.g. L-Acoustc ARC's). The design goal for a fixed curvature array is for it to behave like one box, a point source. That's more or less the same goal for a variable curvature (line) array but when you add flexibility into the equations it comes with compromises. The angel is not fixed, you often have different numbers of boxes and there is not one single focal point etc. but as a compromise it works OK ... and as I said before some work better than others. To me its easy to stick it all in one box and get it to work, the real problem is producing a small manageable box that can be arrayed and adapted to many different situations. The compromise with Danley speaker is the lack of flexibility, the compromise with your typical line array is multiple arrivals etc. As I said above, each of those piece shown in the picture below is very similar to one box out of a fixed curvature array. In this case the array is optimized to used 4 boxes and provides 10 degrees of vertical coverage. It would still work with 2 or 3 pieces but there would be issues, less low frequency control and perhaps some lobbing etc., but when I got to the gig the ceiling was too low perhaps I would just leave the top box off ..... and think, what the heck, the gig is still going to be OK ... [/QUOTE]

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