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- From: andyt@intermec.com (Andy Tiura x1807)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: A $2700 public audio system for a church???
- Message-ID: <2001@intermec.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:08:15 GMT
- References: <12NOV199209535676@jane.uh.edu> <3340269@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Nov17.012011.876@cmkrnl.com>
- Reply-To: andyt@intermec.com (Andy Tiura x1807)
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- Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA
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- I would suggest that you locate a qualified consultant who will survey your
- space and your application and design a "turnkey" system which is idiot-proof.
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- By way of example: my church has a professionally designed & installed sound-
- reinforcement system in the main sanctuary. It has only one function: increase
- the intelligibility of the spoken word throughout a ~600 person capacity room.
- The (literally) clueless users of the system just replace some wireless mic
- batteries every couple weeks and turn a key switch at the start of each
- service. It is equalized and levelled so that it is completely unobtrusive
- in operation..... feedback doesn't happen.... and the dang thing was over
- $8,000 in 1983! The only time you are aware of its existence is when someone
- forgets to turn it on.
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- The other sound system in use is a portable Radio-Shack unit which, while
- outwardly simple in appearance, is set up by average parishioners for occasion-
- al functions in several rooms with uniformly disastrous effects. Every avail-
- able knob will be tweeked randomly throughout the event in an ongoing effort
- to tame the feedback while still being heard in the back of the room. But
- no one seems to think that the $400 invested in this beast was a waste......
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- Get some experienced advise and purchase reliable equipment. It is much
- simpler in the long run.
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