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Brian Gaff wrote:
I don't know. The bbc used to use them in the old Television theatre all
those years ago. Now they were not bad, but they were kind of spacy as
they had speakers on the back as well as the front.

There was a pair of Bose slung on a catenary wire system to cover the
front of the circle. All the rest was covered by RG Jones columns. Bit of
a bodge, really. The original installation had poor coverage to the front
of the circle and stalls. Just the place important guests would sit.

These days you don't always see line source columns used for PA in a TV
studio.

Before I retired, EV units became popular. Just a conventional two driver
speaker. They sounded better than line source, and didn't seem to be any
worse in terms of separation between stage and audience area - but could
handle a great deal more level for pop etc stuff.

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