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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 66366" data-attributes="member: 277">Re: why? - cause it looks cool that&#039;s why....I once had a promoter at a huge outdoor festival at a mall insist we stack our 8 cabinet per side trap and W box rig in that staircase shape if that is what you are referring to. It did look really cool. The sound was what you would expect with all kinds of lobing and combing, although not near as bad as I had expected. He wrote the check so I had no problem doing it. I don&#039;t think anybody in the audience noticed or cared that the sound was not as even as it could have been and honestly those old mid high cabinets didn&#039;t array that well tight packed anyway. I will dig through my old photos and see if I can find one to post.It actually looks like the set up in the picture might work pretty well with a packed dance floor. Those lower mid high cabinets would cover the folks in front and the upper ones would hit most everybody else. If you wanted to experiment and had the processing power you could raise the crossover point of those lower boxes a little higher and use them just for clarity in the front.&nbsp; Food for thought.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 66366, member: 277"] Re: why? - cause it looks cool that's why.... I once had a promoter at a huge outdoor festival at a mall insist we stack our 8 cabinet per side trap and W box rig in that staircase shape if that is what you are referring to. It did look really cool. The sound was what you would expect with all kinds of lobing and combing, although not near as bad as I had expected. He wrote the check so I had no problem doing it. I don't think anybody in the audience noticed or cared that the sound was not as even as it could have been and honestly those old mid high cabinets didn't array that well tight packed anyway. I will dig through my old photos and see if I can find one to post. It actually looks like the set up in the picture might work pretty well with a packed dance floor. Those lower mid high cabinets would cover the folks in front and the upper ones would hit most everybody else. If you wanted to experiment and had the processing power you could raise the crossover point of those lower boxes a little higher and use them just for clarity in the front. Food for thought. [/QUOTE]

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