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Delay towers carry sound to the far field
Extra speaker stacks are timed to arrive in step with the main stage On a long festival field, the main system cannot reach the rear without deafening the front. Engineers raise delay towers partway down the site and add a few milliseconds of electronic delay so their sound lands in step with the stage, rather than as a smear of echo. The same trick covers stands in a stadium. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Delay towers carry sound to the far field: the short answers
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- Extra speaker stacks are timed to arrive in step with the main stage. The figure is taken from Live Nation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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