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Danley Sound Labs Loudspeakers Upgrade Audio Cincinnati Bible School & College

“The new molded horn design SM-60F was perfect.” - Tim Dentler, audio consultant and engineer

For over a century, God’s Bible School & College in Cincinnati, Ohio has been preparing young people for effective careers in the service of the church, both at home and overseas.

A fully accredited college, GBSC offers its students a well-balanced curriculum together with all the social amenities of the larger colleges in the Buckeye State. Among its architectural gems is a beautiful 1,000-seat chapel housed within the Knapp Memorial Building, which, until recently, limped along with an underpowered and semi-functional sound reinforcement system.

A new collection of Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers has breathed new life into the chapel – and at a very affordable price.

The musical portions of the services held by GBSC are best described as classical, infused with elements of southern gospel. Apart from the steady accrual of loudspeaker failures in the old system, the school’s music department found the system’s lack of input mixing flexibility to be an annoyance. GBSC’s new department chair also heard the old system’s lack of power, coverage and fidelity.

Audio consultant and engineer Tim Dentler both designed the replacement sound reinforcement system and oversaw its installation.

“The room is quite large, and the old system relied on a delay ring,” he explains. “Although they are sometimes needed, a delay ring system will always be sonically inferior to a single point system if the single point system can deliver the coverage. I had been following Danley’s innovative loudspeaker technologies for a while, and I saw an opportunity to use its very well-behaved designs to do away with the delay ring.”

Via its manufacturer’s representative, Avcom of Cleveland, Danley arranged demos of potential solutions for GBSC.

“The new molded horn design SM-60F was perfect,” says Dentler. “It sounded fantastic, had the right coverage pattern, coupled well, and came with a surprisingly small price tag.”

Dentler has a long history with Ashly Audio products, and he specified a 3-in by 6-out Ashly Protea 3.24CL processor to handle all input conditioning, routing, and speaker management. Four two-channel Ashly KLR 3200s amplifiers drive the loudspeakers.

A Yamaha LS9-32 with a 16-channel expander dramatically increased GBSC’s input count to forty-eight. Reports from the congregation, as well as from the new department chair, are glowing.

“Over and over, people keep expressing their amazement that so much sound emanates from the three boxes above the stage,” says Dentler. “Of course, we explain that there are subwoofers as well, but that doesn’t diminish the effect. The former dead spots are now happily filled with music. Congregants can hear and understand no matter where they sit.”

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