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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 115379" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: tall skinny speakersThere are no marketing guys---------------yet anyway. The SBH10 is actually 8 seperate paraline lenses that are different sizes.&nbsp; Actually 4 different sizes (upper and lower sections are mirror images).So each is shaping the sound of each driver into a defined pattern of the overall output.So you are correct in that it is an &quot;array&quot;, but unlike other &quot;line arrays&quot; this is intended to work together to provide the pattern-rather than cancel to provide the patternIt is not a matter of using the cancellations of the other drivers to achieve the directivity.Take single 3 or 4&quot; driver and look at the pattern of a single and a line.&nbsp; They are quite different.&nbsp; The multiple drivers produce the cancellation lobes.Take single paraline lens and it is nowhere near omni (like a single small driver).&nbsp; It is very wide in the horizontal and very narrow in the vertical.In the case of the SBH10-each one is a &quot;slice of the pie&quot; so to speak.So I guess it really depends on how you define the term &quot;array&quot;.It is kinda explained in this video.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8cX5Xs_vZg" target="_blank">Danley Sound Labs SBH10 - YouTube</a>One of the reasons we make such large speakers (jerichos for example) is so that we can have the drivers close enough together to get good summation so we have good output level and quality and a single source.No matter what the speaker is (brand or model) a single one will always sound better than multiples.&nbsp; I am not talking about or coverage capability here-just pure sonic quality-due to the fewer number of drivers that are spaced and reacting to each other.So by combining larger numbers of drivers together in a single unit-we get both greater sound quality and greater output level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 115379, member: 30"] Re: tall skinny speakers There are no marketing guys---------------yet anyway. The SBH10 is actually 8 seperate paraline lenses that are different sizes. Actually 4 different sizes (upper and lower sections are mirror images). So each is shaping the sound of each driver into a defined pattern of the overall output. So you are correct in that it is an "array", but unlike other "line arrays" this is intended to work together to provide the pattern-rather than cancel to provide the pattern It is not a matter of using the cancellations of the other drivers to achieve the directivity. Take single 3 or 4" driver and look at the pattern of a single and a line. They are quite different. The multiple drivers produce the cancellation lobes. Take single paraline lens and it is nowhere near omni (like a single small driver). It is very wide in the horizontal and very narrow in the vertical. In the case of the SBH10-each one is a "slice of the pie" so to speak. So I guess it really depends on how you define the term "array". It is kinda explained in this video. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8cX5Xs_vZg]Danley Sound Labs SBH10 - YouTube[/url] One of the reasons we make such large speakers (jerichos for example) is so that we can have the drivers close enough together to get good summation so we have good output level and quality and a single source. No matter what the speaker is (brand or model) a single one will always sound better than multiples. I am not talking about or coverage capability here-just pure sonic quality-due to the fewer number of drivers that are spaced and reacting to each other. So by combining larger numbers of drivers together in a single unit-we get both greater sound quality and greater output level. [/QUOTE]

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