For over a decade, Fletcher North Carolina’s Trinity of Fairview Baptist Church has used a number of loudspeaker design approaches and systems in search of their perfect sound. The church entrusted B&R Audio founder/owner Bruce Jensen to design and install a sound system capable of taming their elegant yet acoustically challenging, octagonal sanctuary.
Challenges
Precise pattern control was essential to keep sound energy off hard reflective surfaces. Compact loudspeakers with high output and exceptional clarity were also required to support a dynamic worship band, as well as intelligible spoken word.
Solution
“Trinity’s unconventional layout, exposed wooden roof, and glass and plaster surfaces make for a very acoustically live room,” explains Bruce Jensen. “Complicating matters, the stage takes up a third of the sanctuary’s floor space, and the angled walls behind it act as a parabolic reflector due to lack of proper acoustic treatment in the church.”...
