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Line arrays—in the right hands and set up properly—provide almost unprecedented pattern control. But what if the room you are working in (say a church or a small-ish theatre) needs that kind of control but a big concert array is just too much in terms of space, SPL and money?
Well, there are the mid-sized arrays, but there are situations in which even those are overkill. Enter the compact—and in some cases even “subcompact”—line array. Small but mighty, these systems range in size from “a little smaller than the big one” to really tiny. Some are the stack of splayed boxes we are used to seeing, and some have put all of the elements of the array into a single box. Our separating standard for this guide was that no box contains a driver any bigger than 8 inches.
