Where is this cluster?

[Cal Weldon]

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[Audio_by_Goodwill]

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Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY

[mah]

Lots of multicells. How many? It's a bit like the contest for guessing how many jelly-beans are in the jar except the layout is geometric and should enable the correct result to be determined by the determined.

[Steve Schell]

Well let's see. Each of the eight 210 bass cabs seems to have four associated horns above and two below, so that would be 48 803B horns right there. Hanging lower there appears to be two more 803Bs for every other bass cab, adding eight more horns and bringing the number to 56. Then there are more horns pointing more or less straight down, hard to tell but perhaps two more bringing the total possibly to 58. If so there would be a total of 464 cells pointing most every damn place, with what would seem to be all sorts of coverage overlaps and arrival time errors. Looks like a bit of an acoustical nightmare to me, but then I haven't heard it. Has anyone had a listen to this? There should be plenty of clean power delivery, no doubt about that.

On second thought, minor quibbles about overlaps at mid and high frequencies might not matter much in a huge reverberant space like this. Perhaps more important is the virtual single point origination of sound, the "pulsating sphere" approach. The clarity of voice is probably better than could be achieved with multiple speakers in distant locations; we have all heard such systems.

[Altec Best]

Holy Smokes one could retire off that cluster ! I don't think it would sound too good musically though,not enough woofers and too many horns.I'd like to be the one who salvages/dismantles that beast one day !

[VolvoHeretic]

Drool! Me want. Reminds me of the time that Buddy Rich played at our Collage's spherical dome and was placed exactly in the center. He would do a rim shot on his snare drum and about 3 seconds later, an echo would return, almost as loud as the original. He laughed and played around it, but I think that he had to change all of the tempos to keep time with the echos.

[VolvoHeretic]

Holy Smokes one could retire off that cluster ! I don't think it would sound too good musically though,not enough woofers and too many horns.I'd like to be the one who salvages/dismantles that beast one day !

I don't know, my A7s inside 12 feet away, need a ton of bass and treble boost which I play at about .5 volume with my Stax preamp and Crown DC300A, but outside on my deck, overlooking the lake, with no EQ, sound great at about .75 volume 200 feet away, floating on innertubes, sipping rum drinks.

[Cal Weldon]

Thanks AbG, that's a nice picture of it.

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

Thanks AbG, that's a nice picture of it.

It wasn't hard to find. I could see in the other picture it said "Big Bertha" on the side of it, so I started Googling. The picture I found, shows that it's been remodeled a bit, as the spaces between the 210's is now flush, along with the new logos.

It is a pretty good picture....... of course I found it on a photography forum :-)

[cradeldorf]

1. I wonder what the estimated street value of that boulder is!!!
2. That would make an excellent chandelier.
3. I want my coffin to look just like that.