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Electro-Voice X-Line Advance combines high performance, compact size, and ease of use for theme parks
Theme parks in Virginia and Minnesota selected the Electro-Voice X1/212-90 line array from the X-Line Advance family — chosen in a head-to-head shootout for its sound quality, coverage, footprint, and cost.
Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center in Wheaton, Maryland, was tasked with recommending a sound system for a major theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia. The team ran a shootout comparing multiple line array loudspeaker systems for ice skating performances in an outdoor amphitheater, evaluating sound quality, coverage, footprint, and cost. The Electro-Voice X1/212-90 from the X-Line Advance family came out on top.
The Williamsburg installation uses eight-box arrays of the X1/212-90 to cover a 200-foot throw.
Word travels to Valleyfair
Following the Williamsburg result, Valleyfair Family Amusement Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, requested similar equipment for its All Wheels Extreme BMX attraction. The system runs six X1/212-90 loudspeakers per side, ground-stacked and mounted on an X12T-DOLLY rolling cart, with an Electro-Voice Dx46 loudspeaker controller and FIR-Drive technology handling the digital signal processing.
Forward-thinking line-array design
The X-Line Advance family is built to deliver wide bandwidth, vertical and horizontal directivity control, and high efficiency in a compact, cost-effective package — suited to permanent installations and to near-field use within a combined line array.
“When all was said and done, we chose the Electro-Voice X1/212-90 because of its pure sonic quality.”
Nate Aiello, Systems Design Consultant, Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center