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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 117964" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Speaker recommendationNo, no, a thousand times no!&nbsp; (sorry - had to be symmetrical).Have you guys ever used these?&nbsp; They sound like the guy from Spaceballs.I worked on a 40-acre install a few years ago and we tested the biggest Atlas paging horn against their new Stadium stuff and Mackie 450&#039;s.&nbsp; The conventional horns are the size of the Liberty bell, and don&#039;t project any farther than the Stadium horns, or any other speaker of similar pattern and output.&nbsp; Did I mention the sound quality totally sucks?In outdoor sound reinforcement, intelligibility is more important than volume, and it&#039;s much easier to understand a high-fidelity speaker at a distance than a louder but less clear horn.&nbsp; There really are only two solutions here - get louder boxes and put them up higher (expensive and difficult), or get more boxes and spread them around (probably cheaper, but you&#039;ve got to get power and signal there).&nbsp; Which one is appropriate will depend on your circumstances.BTW, if you want a pair of those ridiculous horns, I probably know of a couple for sale cheap.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 117964, member: 162"] Re: Speaker recommendation No, no, a thousand times no! (sorry - had to be symmetrical). Have you guys ever used these? They sound like the guy from Spaceballs. I worked on a 40-acre install a few years ago and we tested the biggest Atlas paging horn against their new Stadium stuff and Mackie 450's. The conventional horns are the size of the Liberty bell, and don't project any farther than the Stadium horns, or any other speaker of similar pattern and output. Did I mention the sound quality totally sucks? In outdoor sound reinforcement, intelligibility is more important than volume, and it's much easier to understand a high-fidelity speaker at a distance than a louder but less clear horn. There really are only two solutions here - get louder boxes and put them up higher (expensive and difficult), or get more boxes and spread them around (probably cheaper, but you've got to get power and signal there). Which one is appropriate will depend on your circumstances. BTW, if you want a pair of those ridiculous horns, I probably know of a couple for sale cheap. [/QUOTE]

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