Danley Sound Labs Delivers For God's Bible School and College God's Bible School and College a fully accredited college in Cincinnati, Ohio, has on its campus a 1,000-seat chapel housed within the Knapp Memorial Building, which, recently got an audio upgrade featuring Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers. 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 explained. "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, Ohio, Danley arranged demos of potential solutions for GBSC. "The new molded horn design SM-60F was perfect," said Dentler. "It sounded fantastic, had the right coverage pattern, coupled well, and came with a surprisingly small price tag." Despite a very "difficult weather" this past spring and summer at its headquarters in Georgia, Danley Sound Labs succeeded in delivering the boxes to GBSC on a very tight time schedule. "I was impressed with Danley's obvious commitment to me as an integrator," said Dentler. "They worked with me and had an obvious appreciation for the stresses and demands of a contractor." At the end of August, the school completed the installation of three Danley SM-60Fs in a single flown cluster, with two Danley TH-MINI subwoofers tucked into an enclosure under the stage. Dentler has a long history with Ashly Audio products, and he specified a three-in-by-six-out Ashly Protea 3.24CL processor to handle all input conditioning, routing, and speaker management. Four two-channel Ashly KLR 3200s had the Danley SM-60Fs and TH-MINIs sounding fantastic." A Yamaha LS9-32 with a 16channel expander dramatically increased GBSC's input count to 48. 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," said 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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