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Cabinet speaker
Reflex horn speaker
Five Foot Horn Speaker
Concert Line Array
- Good for music
- Effective in sheltered spaces
- Can sound great when many cabinets are used in a straight line (over 20 cabinets in a row)
- Best used indoors
- Good for announcements
- Effective indoors or outdoors
- Will work with long speaker cables (over 1km from amplifier)
- Lightweight (4-6kg)
- Can be spaced up to 80 metres apart and 80 metres from audience
- Cuts through wind up to 20km/h
- Best for outdoor announcements
- Reproduces full 180Hz-6kHz ‘commentator’ audio bandwidth (sounds natural)
- Will work with long speaker cables (over 1km from amplifier)
- Can be spaced up to 50 metres apart and 100 metres from audience
- Cuts through wind up to 40km/h
- Can be customized for any space, indoors or outdoors
- Sounds great for music and announcements
- Need to be spaced no more than 10 metres apart
- Need to be within 10m of audience when used outdoors
- Need to be close to power
- Heavy (10-20kg)
- Sound is lost / relocated in winds greater than 5km/h
- Smaller horn speakers (less than 300mm diameter) sound "tinny"
- Not suitable for music
- Large horns (500mm+) required for comfortable listening
- Limited capabilities with music
- Bulky
- Fragile due to age
- Went out of production in 1970
- Replaced by 4 foot horn
- Requires earth moving equipment to install heavy duty rigging towers and winches / cranes to hang speakers
- Requires large generators to supply enough power
- Requires a team of technicians to setup and operate
- Costs tens of thousands of dollars per day to hire
- Requires noise permit when used within 1km of any residential area
How "powerful" are my speakers? 100W / 1,000W / 10,000W. - As powerful as is needed to produce clear sound, where it is needed.
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