The Church enlisted the services of Fort Worth Electro Acoustics & Video consulted where president Chris Jordan comments: "At first, I was pretty certain the church would have to reinstall the acoustical panels to achieve a more desirable reverb time. However, I'd heard about EAW's DSA Series line arrays, which can steer the output directly at the congregation, and away from the troublesome reflective surfaces. This proved to be an elegant and practical solution to the problems at Northway."
Jordan continues, "The DSAs are incredibly compact and unobtrusive for all the sound they put out, but we made them even less noticeable when we painted them to match the walls. So despite being surface mounted on the front wall of the church, you have to really look to see where the sound is coming from. For a church whose goal was to give its sanctuary a facelift, we did pretty well by eliminating the bulky black speaker cabinets and reducing the need for additional acoustical panels."
Minister Mark Bender comments: "With the new sound system, you can actually understand the spoken word better than ever. Best of all, the system preserves the aesthetics of our church - which was the whole point of renovation in the first place."
(Jim Evans)
