For a time in the 1990’s, the best sound money could buy for a large concert was arguably an array of EAW KF850’s. EAW cabinets were employed for countless stadium shows, even a Super Bowl halftime. Unfortunately, at 250 pounds PER CABINET, a single KF850 cabinet is a three-person lift. And they project a narrow, focused beam of sound, having been engineered to work in large clusters (as in the photo above).
So I took the sound-generating components from these very units, EAW KF850’s, and mated each individual driver with a horn engineered to project their sound over a wider area. Each of the three components weighs under sixty pounds, yet each is rated to produce over 130 dB of sound pressure.
These components can be deployed as a two-way or three-way speaker, depending on the demands of the application. The result can deliver one hundred decibels strong one hundred feet from the stage, with over 90 degrees of horizontal coverage. They are light enough to use simple crank stands to elevate them to the height of a modest line array to keep the sound for the front rows at a comfortable level.