Specifications

A. The rays shown on ViewPoint can be a little misleading because a series of rays

arriving at a shallow angle will appear to be widely spaced.

Many users equate this with the sun’s rays which weaken as the sun sets. In fact, the

setting sun’s power weakens due to greater absorption of shorter wavelengths through the

earth’s curved atmosphere not because the rays are arriving at a shallow angle.

With W8L Series arrays, the sound pressure level at any point in the room can be

thought of as the vector sum of all the cabinets +/-7.5 degrees from that point, not

simply due to the cabinet whose ray is aiming there. The example above shows that the

“cabinet 7” area receives contributions from cabinets 3 to 11, not just cabinet 7.

ViewPoint’s Progressive Curvature calculations ensure that inter-cabinet splay angles

increase gradually from the array and arrays are driven slightly harder towards the top of

the array to partially compensate for air losses. This combination of Progressive

Curvature and Band Zoning gives maximum projection to the furthest seats and the

smoothest coverage.

5.5.13 Using ViewPoint for systems with subwoofers

Flown W8LS subwoofers

By default all W8LS splay angles are set to zero. If possible, raise the array height so that

the W8LS cabinets are pointing downwards – or consider a parallel (side) W8LS or WLX

subwoofer array.