Hello. A company in my city seems to be making waves in the PA and concert sound world: PK Sound. They have vertical arrays of speakers mounted on a flexible spine that can curve and change the angle of how the audience receives the sound in the vertical axis. All remotely controlled. Plus they have controllable wings on the sides of each speaker cabinet to steer the sound horizontally.
Is any of this thinking legit? Vertical arrays suffer from lobing. How is any of this mechanical steering going to improve sound? I guess one selling point is not flooding an entire area with sound and keeping it aimed at the audience and not the surrounding neighborhood (for outside venues). Will it even be successful at this?
Is any of this thinking legit? Vertical arrays suffer from lobing. How is any of this mechanical steering going to improve sound? I guess one selling point is not flooding an entire area with sound and keeping it aimed at the audience and not the surrounding neighborhood (for outside venues). Will it even be successful at this?