“The toughest thing in doing a system like this is waiting for feedback from the public. And there’s been no feedback at all, which is precisely the response we were hoping for.”




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“They didn’t like the idea of a large cluster or line array. The Iconyx blends into the architecture so well, they’re practically invisible.” Badamo reports the new system has impressed congregation and pastors alike. “People are saying that for the first time in years, they can actually hear every word.”



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As to those intelligibility issues, as Roland puts it, "The results from the Iconyx were absolutely stunning. Calling it night and day doesn't even do it justice. The congregation had been struggling for years with the old sound system, and it's just mind-blowing how good it sounds now."



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Not surprisingly, members of the congregation have been thrilled with their new home, with particularly high praise going to the sound of both the music and spoken word.

“The Iconyx was an ideal solution for what would have otherwise been a very challenging space,” says Cox.

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"Aesthetics were of the utmost importance," says Bragg. "They did not want to see the speakers. We worked with the architect, and had them leave an opening in the brickwork on either side of the proscenium. The Iconyx fit in perfectly, and we put a bit of standard molding around it. It looks terrific."


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"It's a very classic looking sanctuary, and putting in large loudspeakers simply wasn't an option," says Anderson. "The STX and Sygma cabinets have such a small footprint, there's hardly any visual impact at all. And it's really impressive that we could hang such a small system so high up and still get such tight, focused coverage. It's really a great little system."


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We have not only accomplished a space that has improved our congregational song, we now have better speech intelligibility and clarity vastly improved over our past loudspeaker system. The installation of this system insured the success of our entire project. We have not had one complaint about not being able to understand the spoken word."


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We have not only accomplished a space that has improved our congregational song, we now have better speech intelligibility and clarity vastly improved over our past loudspeaker system. The installation of this system insured the success of our entire project. We have not had one complaint about not being able to understand the spoken word."


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"The Iconyx system has made the worship experience more enjoyable," Cardenas reports. "People of all ages can actually hear the sermons. We'll definitely be using the Iconyx in our next upgrades as well."



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"It works exceptionally well," concludes Timothy. "It's very subtle. When you're sitting in the Choir area, it's like you're speaking in a normal conversational tone, but it sounds like it's coming from everywhere. The singers and directors are very happy; most of them say it sounds every bit as good as the Tabernacle itself."

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John Manhart of Direct Pro Audio LLC: - "Greater Beth-El needs a sound system that blends well aesthetically with the temple’s décor but still provides enough output to handle their sound requirements," explains Manhart. "They want to avoid big hanging speaker boxes that might block the view of their stage backdrop and projection screen."

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"By being able to use two speakers instead of six or eight, and eliminating the need for external amplification and all the associated connectivity, we were able to realize a better result with minimal impact on their budget. It's always a real pleasure to complete a project that looks great, sounds great and makes the client happy."


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"I wish to express the friars' satisfaction. Following the good results achieved, they intend asking the supplier to provide a similar system for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria Delle Grazie, where the mortal remains of Saint Pio are kept. I must say that the faithful and pilgrims, who previously had difficulty understanding sermons in the new church, have also expressed their appreciation of the tangible difference."

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The 125 - year old Sacred Heart Church, in Springfield, Massachusetts, has a visually breathtaking, yet intensely acoustically reverberant, sanctuary. Richard G. O'Connell of AV DesignBuild asked to resolve a fundamental problem: parishioners were unable to hear eulogies and sermons, and there was occasional radio breakthrough. His solution comprised new control equipment - and a pair of Iconyx digitally steerable arrays.

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Two ceiling-mounted PN212-SUB subwoofers supply the low-end impact that the younger members of the congregation enjoy. “The subs are configured as a central cardioid array,” Roda says, “to focus the sub-bass reinforcement into the nave and avoid exciting the clerestory space. We continue to be impressed by the very ‘musical’ full-range punch of the Iconyx/PNX212-SUB combination.”

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It also works well enough that in the Sunday services, the church is able to have children participate at the altar, almost directly in front of the Iconyx, on lavalier microphones. “For the first time ever,” comments Mike, “the congregation can hear the children’s choir properly, so they’re very happy with that.”

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“With the new ICONYX system, St. Patrick’s now sounds as good as it looks,” says Don Beyer, “The congregation has grown enormously as a result of restoring the building and enhancing its functionality. They now average 800 people at Sunday services, which had fallen as low as 80 in the 1980’s. In addition, St. Patrick’s is one the most frequently rented churches in the Toledo area for weddings, baptisms and other family events.”

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Minister of Music and Worship D. J. Bulls is also pleased with the outcome: “It has far exceeded our expectations in every way,” he says. “It brings a new energy to our worship space; the sound is crystal clear, intelligible, and adds a great deal of vibrancy to both the spoken word and our music, with each vocal part extremely clear.” He adds: “ I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Iconyx, Curt Taipale or the guys from Summit to anyone.”

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“Shortly after the speakers were hung, our organist walked in and asked, “Where are the new speakers?’ He didn’t see ‘em.” Says Breshears. “The challenge was that the facility didn’t lend itself to sound reinforcement. One of the architects’ criteria was that the speakers could not impose on the facility architecturally. We considered a tradition cluster, but nobody really liked that idea, and then ICONYX, which gave us the option to make good sound in the balcony and on the floor. So we put that idea to the guys at the church and they liked the concept of it."

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“For so many years we’d watched manufacturers of loudspeakers improve their products, yet this kind of space remained unsolvable,” he says. “But ICONYX has finally made it happen in a remarkable way. It’s a major change of direction for us as integrators, too. Higher performances can be achieved with less equipment, less wiring and shorter installation time. You could say the technology we waited so long for is finally available.”

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Frode Bye concludes: “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from users since the new system went in as well as people working there or people visiting from other churches. Even those with hearing loss comment on the sound quality; they can finally hear what is said.”

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With the visual & mounting hurdles surmounted, Design Sound Northwest turned to the acoustic problem. “We did a basic EASE model in order to optimize the coverage,” says Leppert. “The wide 140 degree horizontal pattern works well in this application, even though the two light poles are very far apart. With the digital steering we can mount the arrays flush on the poles, yet aim the sound downward so it covers the seating area well without annoying the neighbors.”

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The system comprises four self-powered PN102/LA cabinets a side, with each array totaling just under 300 pounds. These cover the entire main body of the seating and Beckles comments: “That loudspeaker has the most amazing dispersion I’ve ever seen in the horizontal, and even the bottom cabinet gives quite workable nearfield fill. We didn’t lose much coverage in the front at all – maybe six feet from the raised dais.”

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It may be Florida’s oldest retirement community, but Advent Christian Village (ACV), founded in 1913 as a unique intergenerational community in north central Florida, boasts a spacious modern church at the heart of its campus. The church recently became the proud owner of a state-of-the-art Renkus-Heinz ICONYX digitally steerable array sound reinforcement system.

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Jean Giroux concludes: “Two Renkus-Heinz ICONYX IC32s have replaced a large system of loudspeakers, amplifiers, crossovers, EQs, racks and cabling – and perform far better!”

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An 18th century (1753-7) protestant church in Switzerland has become one of Europe’s latest converts to Renkus-Heinz’s unique Iconyx digitally steerable array, its users discovering that the system has opened up a new era of speech intelligibility in a room that had defeated all earlier attempts to tame it.

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The beautiful 19th-century St Peter Cathedral in Erie, PA is among the first of many acoustically challenging buildings to reap the benefits of an ICONYX installation.

The new system’s designers, regional integrator Fact AV Technologies Inc., faced the kind of challenge that ICONYX has already proved to be a world beater at overcoming.

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"The ST7 has the CDT-2 CoEntrant Transducer with a 10-inch midrange cone and 2 inch compression driver. The ST4, which has CDT-1 with an 8-inch cone and 1-inch compression driver, is a little brighter. Sometimes that's an advantage in a smaller venue. We have four Renkus-Heinz PN212 subs in the center and Bag End 18-inch subs on the sides for the organ pedal tones. There are also four Renkus-Heinz PN121M delays. We have a lot of headroom with these loudspeakers."

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The array at Roseville Covenant Church is comprised of four TRAP40/7K loudspeakers forming a single-level, horizontally oriented array, with the slightly gapped cabinets arching above the very front of the platform. Each TRAP40/7K is assigned to cover the respective seating area in front of it, with any transitioning between the cabinets kept strictly in the aisles.

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“We’ve had people come in unsolicited and tell us this is the best sounding church in Oklahoma,” says Ken Moore of AVL Systems Design. Henderson Hills’ Associate Pastor of Music & Worship Larry Harrison is too modest to go that far, but he will say this: “We have been extremely pleased: the system that AVL designed and installed has met and exceeded our expectations in every way.

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