“Shortly after the speakers were hung, our organist walked in and asked, “Where are the new speakers?’ He didn’t see ‘em.” Says Breshears. “The challenge was that the facility didn’t lend itself to sound reinforcement. One of the architects’ criteria was that the speakers could not impose on the facility architecturally. We considered a tradition cluster, but nobody really liked that idea, and then ICONYX, which gave us the option to make good sound in the balcony and on the floor. So we put that idea to the guys at the church and they liked the concept of it."

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“For so many years we’d watched manufacturers of loudspeakers improve their products, yet this kind of space remained unsolvable,” he says. “But ICONYX has finally made it happen in a remarkable way. It’s a major change of direction for us as integrators, too. Higher performances can be achieved with less equipment, less wiring and shorter installation time. You could say the technology we waited so long for is finally available.”

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Frode Bye concludes: “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from users since the new system went in as well as people working there or people visiting from other churches. Even those with hearing loss comment on the sound quality; they can finally hear what is said.”

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With the visual & mounting hurdles surmounted, Design Sound Northwest turned to the acoustic problem. “We did a basic EASE model in order to optimize the coverage,” says Leppert. “The wide 140 degree horizontal pattern works well in this application, even though the two light poles are very far apart. With the digital steering we can mount the arrays flush on the poles, yet aim the sound downward so it covers the seating area well without annoying the neighbors.”

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The system comprises four self-powered PN102/LA cabinets a side, with each array totaling just under 300 pounds. These cover the entire main body of the seating and Beckles comments: “That loudspeaker has the most amazing dispersion I’ve ever seen in the horizontal, and even the bottom cabinet gives quite workable nearfield fill. We didn’t lose much coverage in the front at all – maybe six feet from the raised dais.”

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It may be Florida’s oldest retirement community, but Advent Christian Village (ACV), founded in 1913 as a unique intergenerational community in north central Florida, boasts a spacious modern church at the heart of its campus. The church recently became the proud owner of a state-of-the-art Renkus-Heinz ICONYX digitally steerable array sound reinforcement system.

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Jean Giroux concludes: “Two Renkus-Heinz ICONYX IC32s have replaced a large system of loudspeakers, amplifiers, crossovers, EQs, racks and cabling – and perform far better!”

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An 18th century (1753-7) protestant church in Switzerland has become one of Europe’s latest converts to Renkus-Heinz’s unique Iconyx digitally steerable array, its users discovering that the system has opened up a new era of speech intelligibility in a room that had defeated all earlier attempts to tame it.

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The beautiful 19th-century St Peter Cathedral in Erie, PA is among the first of many acoustically challenging buildings to reap the benefits of an ICONYX installation.

The new system’s designers, regional integrator Fact AV Technologies Inc., faced the kind of challenge that ICONYX has already proved to be a world beater at overcoming.

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"The ST7 has the CDT-2 CoEntrant Transducer with a 10-inch midrange cone and 2 inch compression driver. The ST4, which has CDT-1 with an 8-inch cone and 1-inch compression driver, is a little brighter. Sometimes that's an advantage in a smaller venue. We have four Renkus-Heinz PN212 subs in the center and Bag End 18-inch subs on the sides for the organ pedal tones. There are also four Renkus-Heinz PN121M delays. We have a lot of headroom with these loudspeakers."

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The array at Roseville Covenant Church is comprised of four TRAP40/7K loudspeakers forming a single-level, horizontally oriented array, with the slightly gapped cabinets arching above the very front of the platform. Each TRAP40/7K is assigned to cover the respective seating area in front of it, with any transitioning between the cabinets kept strictly in the aisles.

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“We’ve had people come in unsolicited and tell us this is the best sounding church in Oklahoma,” says Ken Moore of AVL Systems Design. Henderson Hills’ Associate Pastor of Music & Worship Larry Harrison is too modest to go that far, but he will say this: “We have been extremely pleased: the system that AVL designed and installed has met and exceeded our expectations in every way.

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