With an average weekly attendance of 16,500 between its four campuses in Palm Beach County, Florida, Christ Fellowship Church continually seeks to improve the worship experience for its attendees and promote further growth. The church has updated its flagship Palm Beach Gardens worship center with a new loudspeaker and amplifier system.
Alan Jones of Pro Sound and Video's Miami location helped facilitate the sale and installation of the new L-Acoustics system, which features the very first Karai and SB18i enclosures shipped to the US. The system, designed in L-Acoustics' Soundvision software, features three Karai arrays flown in an LCR configuration concealed in soffits above the stage of the 2,200-seat octagonal sanctuary. Two four-box SB18i sub arrays, each arranged in a cardioid configuration providing focused low-frequency extension for the Karai mains, are flown in the two spaces between the Karai, and two SB28 subs are positioned on the floor beneath each Karai array.
“We invited four respected loudspeaker manufacturers to come participate in a comparative listening test to help us discern which system would be the best solution for our room,” says Danny Dagher, senior audio engineer at Christ Fellowship Gardens. Dagher recalls. “So we brought in our entire worship and media staff – there were more than 30 of us critically listening to the shootout – and we unanimously came to the consensus that Karai was the right box.”
Once the system had been installed and commissioned, Dagher and system tech Travis Groat were even more elated with their decision. “Our previous house system was an exploded mono cluster design, which was a comb filtering nightmare,” he laughs. “So to go from that to L-Acoustics has been absolutely shocking. The intelligibility of Karai is breathtakingly clean, but without the fatiguing sterile harshness that one can experience on other PAs.”
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