Martin Audio WLXGS manual Electronic steering, Important Note

Listeners in the 60º zone will hear the note at a reduced level and may be more aware of room reverberation because the direct-to-reverberation ratio would be poorer for that note. Other notes would give different effects.

In practice, these peaks and troughs can be smoothed out with additional fill systems.

Electronic steering

It is possible to “aim” ground-stacks towards distant raked seating or balconies or away from problematic areas by electronically “tilting” the system using multi-channel digital delay lines.

The following illustration shows the basic schematic plus the staircase effect** (greyed out) produced by the progressive increase in drive delay from bottom to top.

**Important Note:

The staggered stack (shown greyed out) illustrates the effect of electronic steering.

For safety reasons, never try to tilt or stagger a real subwoofer stack.

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