Community fiberglass bass horns.

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large, single 60x40° coaxially mounted cd horn, bms loaded might be one solution to match the community horns dispersion and bandwidth?

In reality when the clientele are whizzing around and around in circles I'm sure that the only usefull answer would be no

ash pegs wrote: In reality when the clientele are whizzing around and around in circles I'm sure that the only usefull answer would be no

Haha you're probably onto something there ash. On second thoughts tho and lets say this wasn't a skating rink, it is quite a large space so probably have to be giving that system some watts to not be able to differentiate where the sound was coming from so bass en mass is probably right. Apart from the cd horn part

I'm pretty sure that the clientele concerned in this particular venue will be a lot more concerened with pop music and clean shaving, however that doesn't make the theory any less important. Surely crossfiring over an area like this is not going to have a noticeable effect though is it?

eqd cd horn will result in more even dispersion within passband, tractix not really, by nature..
(hence suggesting CD HF to keep broadband similar dispersion 200ish hz up..)
depending on the depth of the community lmf a coax hf layout might not do much harm re resonances in the lowmids, at least you would get a sort of point source sound and uniform dispersion to cover 2/3d of that rink more or less properly, guess no one would really8 be bothered if the sides, out of direct dispersion, will sound a bit muffled?! L/R-R/L, cross stereo setup, not facing each other directly on axis + some acoustic damping along the walls should work well enough for that purpose?

if you require a lower overall spl + better coverage i`d go for plenty small fullrange cabs along the long walls and a double bass array on both sides - properly done it should keep overall spl at a minimum yet allowing for best/most even coverage, at some cost and labour obviously..