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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 115117" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: tall skinny speakersI was not talking about the old column or cabinet that use a stacked number of drivers-but rather how a SINGLE driver (as in the speaker in question) has a narrow patternHow do you have a &quot;single driver&quot; line array?&nbsp; Other than using our Paraline technologyIf you are meaning a &quot;single driver&quot; line array as one that uses a stacked line of drivers of the same size-then I totally disagree.If the driver was by itself it would have a pretty wide pattern (horizontal and vertical) depending on the freq and the size of the drivers.&nbsp; The reason so many &quot;columns&quot; use small drivers is because the larger the driver the more it becomes &quot;beamy&quot; and ot keep the driver to driver spacing small.But as soon as you start adding additional drivers in a line they start to cancel and the pattern gets narrower-cue to the cancellation of the other drivers based on the spacing and the freq in question.If you don&#039;t believe me-then measure it on axis-above the column and down in the middle of the column.&nbsp; You will not get the same response or coverage.&nbsp; If it was alone-all measurements should be the same (with the higher and lower measurements being a bit lower in SPL)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 115117, member: 30"] Re: tall skinny speakers I was not talking about the old column or cabinet that use a stacked number of drivers-but rather how a SINGLE driver (as in the speaker in question) has a narrow pattern How do you have a "single driver" line array? Other than using our Paraline technology If you are meaning a "single driver" line array as one that uses a stacked line of drivers of the same size-then I totally disagree. If the driver was by itself it would have a pretty wide pattern (horizontal and vertical) depending on the freq and the size of the drivers. The reason so many "columns" use small drivers is because the larger the driver the more it becomes "beamy" and ot keep the driver to driver spacing small. But as soon as you start adding additional drivers in a line they start to cancel and the pattern gets narrower-cue to the cancellation of the other drivers based on the spacing and the freq in question. If you don't believe me-then measure it on axis-above the column and down in the middle of the column. You will not get the same response or coverage. If it was alone-all measurements should be the same (with the higher and lower measurements being a bit lower in SPL) [/QUOTE]

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