In Reply to: RE: directional line arrays are able reduce their length posted by Rafaro on June 12, 2016 at 04:29:50:
The straight line array can have a reduced SPL fall off, even half of a point source but this only happens when the line is long compared to wavelength.
The weakness of the design is that this is very frequency dependent so most line arrays are curved to make them more like an astigmatic point source instead which reduces the spectral balance change with distance, while reduced, the interference pattern they produce imposes a limited working distance requiring "delay rings".
A true point source in a large horn can have much greater throw, have little or no distance related spectral change, sounds better, is more intelligible and is smaller, with the down side of being a smaller sale for the dealer.
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