Digitally Steered Columns: Comparison of Different Products by Measurement and Simulation (Paper)
Stefan Feistel, Anselm Goertz, "Digitally Steered Columns: Comparison of Different Products by Measurement and Simulation", presented at the 135th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Journal of Audio Engineering Society, convention paper 8935 (2013 Oct.); http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=16985
Abstract:
Digitally steered loudspeaker columns have become the predominant means to achieve satisfying speech intelligibility in acoustically challenging spaces. This work compares the performance of several commercially available array loudspeakers in a medium-size, reverberant church. Speech intelligibility as well as other acoustic quantities are compared on the basis of extensive measurements and computer simulations. The results show that formally different loudspeaker products provide very similar transmission quality. Also, measurement and modeling results match accurately within the uncertainty limits.
