The speech intelligibility in the Frederik's Church has been a problem due to its dome shape. The church volume is 32,000 m3, reverberation time is 8 s. The problem has been solved by the design of directivity horns and a distributed loudspeaker system divided into electrical zones with 160 loudspeaker cabinets for 500 seats.

Author: Brummer, J.
Affiliation: Birch & Krogboe, Virum, Denmark
AES Convention: 100 (May 1996) Paper Number: 4248
Publication Date: May 1, 1996
Subject: Architectural Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement

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