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Re: PA Line Arrays [message #24438 is a reply to message #24435] Thu, 05 June 2008 11:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bill Wassilak is currently offline  Bill Wassilak
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Sure Fred,
Basically these are designed to operate from 100HZ on up, it's about a 5' line because there going to be set on top of B.F. tuba 36 subs and they will be bi-amped.

They have 8 Dayton PA165 midbass/mids in each of them, in 645cu.in. enclosures each tuned to 86 hz with 2-2.5in ports in each chamber. For the highs theres 32-Dayton ND20 tweeters, 4 per chamber. The c-t-c tweeter spacing is good enough to get me out to about 15Khz without destroying the line. The baffle board is curved to form a progressive J-array to help eliminate sound bloom at certain frequencies, because power tapering is not an option in these arrays. The baffle angles go from 0 deg in the top chamber to a negative 7 deg by the time it reaches the bottom of the array. I used EV array show to determine these angles.

The mids are going to be able to handle 600w rms, where as I'm going to limit the tweeter power to 275w rms, because the tweeters are being ran a little lower than what recommended x-over is. The x-over I use is a Behringer DCX2496 DSP and the tweeters are going to be crossed over between 2k-2.3k max. with very very steep slopes, and reduced power handling because of this. But it dosen't affect the tweeter SPL level that much, because theres so many of them.

Re: PA Line Arrays [message #24441 is a reply to message #24438] Sat, 07 June 2008 07:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
FredT is currently offline  FredT
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The PA165 seems to be a good midwoofer for use in an affordable pro line array. Could you post a picture somewhere, and let us know how they sound. What kind of venue will you use them in?

Re: PA Line Arrays [message #24443 is a reply to message #24441] Wed, 11 June 2008 14:10 Go to previous message
Bill Wassilak is currently offline  Bill Wassilak
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I'll try to get some pictures up, they were used in a 350-400 seat club, they worked perfect in that venue even though the mid to high crossover point was a little over 1 wave length for the line. You couldn't tell any comb filtering between the sitting, standing or the dancing jumping up and down positions. The band really liked them, got good comments from them, and from the crowd.

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