A Reliable Procedure for Polarity Measurements on Line Arrays

Becker M, Schmidle G. A Reliable Procedure for Polarity Measurements on Line Arrays. In: AES Convention 129. Audio Engineering Society; 2010. Paper 8156. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15579

@inproceedings{Becker2010_15579,
  author = {Becker, Markus and Schmidle, Gregor},
  title = {{A Reliable Procedure for Polarity Measurements on Line Arrays}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 129},
  note = {Paper 8156},
  year = {2010},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15579}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - A Reliable Procedure for Polarity Measurements on Line Arrays
AU  - Becker, Markus
AU  - Schmidle, Gregor
T2  - AES Convention 129
M1  - Paper 8156
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/11/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15579
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The performance of a line array strongly depends on the correct installation of its loudspeakers. For instance, a single speaker with incorrect polarity may clearly compromise the sound level and directivity of the whole system. The identification of such errors however can be very time consuming. Therefore, it is desirable to have a fast, yet reliable procedure to finding such array elements. This paper presents a step-by-step method to check the integrity of a line array, and to find the cause in case of a polarity problem. Besides the theoretical background, a successful practical case is described.
ER  -