Hello all,

Just wanted to share with you some pictures of a fun little project I gave myself over this last summer....to build my first line array speaker system.



I've got a bunch of pictures I took while building it and I've placed them on a separate web page.

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Two 4-foot towers each loaded with 14 Altec Lansing drivers. We're talking real cheap computer speakers here so my expectations for high fidelity was fairly low. Much to my surprise, they've got a great mid-range sound and just like the Bose towers, the wave launch travels farther out before fading. In fact, my neighbors get a kick out of me making them walk across the street and into the next yard and yell back when they start to lose volume. But midrange is about all they got. No highs, no lows, and it doesn't get REAL loud. I'm sure the quality of the driver has a lot to do with it. They do fill my garage with some nice sounds and they compliment my other (even cheaper truck box) speakers.

Another aspect I've been experimenting with is their orientation. The Bose tower stands vertically and fills up the horizontal plane. I'm laying mine on their side, horizontally, and let them fill the vertical plane.  .With this config, I do have a left & right aspect so I am running them in stereo. Granted you won't get an accurate sound stage but you do get proper steering (left & right information). Don't know if it means anything but that's how I'm running them for now.

Have a look at the other pictures if you get a chance. Enjoy......

-mike