Standing under the canvas at a festival last month, I nodded as the system designer explained his belief that loudspeaker manufacturers developed the flagship big boxes partly as a marketing exercise to help promote their more popular small-format speakers. And listening to such a compact system deliver an easy 100dB with plenty of headroom and shimmering high-end, it was easy – or so I thought – to understand what he was getting at: budgets are tight and how many events truly warrant large-format PA these days?
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