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ALBANY, GEORGIA: Located in the mid-sized city of Albany in southwest Georgia, Sherwood Baptist Church is well known for trailblazing new approaches. Its large campus gives the Albany community an immersive Christian experience: the Sherwood Christian Academy serves students in kindergarten through high school, and the church organizes and hosts plenty of community-wide activities, classes, and events beyond just the Sunday service. Recently, dB Integrations, of Gainesville, Georgia, updated the sound reinforcement systems in three of its spaces – the school gym, the school theater, and the church gym – using Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers for improved intelligibility and musical impact.
"The old sound system in the school gym was a product of old school 'grab-some-speakers-from-the-music-store-and-call-it-good' thinking," explained Neil Philpott, sales consultant at dB Integrations. "When it was on, you could tell that something was being amplified, but 75% of the audience had no idea what was being said. Mama wasn't made proud when her kid's number was called because she simply couldn't hear it. The church decided to improve that situation when the work could coincide with the refurbishing of the floors and the installation of additional bleachers.
"Of course, they wanted solid intelligibility across all the bleachers on both sides of the court," Philpott continued. "But they also aspired to have great music playback because they expect to host more events with praise and worship music in the school gym. With most loudspeaker manufacturers, there is a bad trade-off between intelligibility and musical playback: better intelligibility usually...