I am contemplating building a line array using 8 Neo8s per side.
My question is how to mount the Neo8s.
My baffle will be between 1" & 1.5" depending on feed back.
My conflicting train of thoughts are;
- Surface mount.
- Rear mount with some form of wave guide.
Even if the drivers are surface mounted you need to deal with the sound from the rear anyway, requiring a chamfer or something.
Rear mounting has at least one downside, the heads of the screws that hold them together would interfere without rear mounting.
Otherwise, rear mounting seems like it would be easier. Just cut a single ~64" rectangle and butt the Neo8s against one another vertically.
Rear mounting also seems to get the Neo8 closer to the plane of the voice coil in the mid-bass driver as well.
So, if I rear mount these puppies, and I have 1" to 1-1/2" of baffle thickness to work with, what should the area surrounding the Neo8s look like? Chamfer, concave, convex...? Is there a way of identifying the best shape, before making sawdust?
The goal of course is to provide the most even freq response over the widest horizontal plane.
So what are some thoughts on a Neo8 array in general and how best to mount them specifically?