Audio Technology

AT PROFESSIONAL BLACKBIRD TLA1.4 Portable Line Array

The AT Professional Blackbird TLA1.4 portable line array speaker system is proudly made in Queensland by Australian company AT Professional. They make a wide range of both point source and line array speaker systems that directly compete with the high end offerings of the big international manufacturers. That’s no easy task but they succeed by aiming high with in-house R&D driven by an audiophile disposition. Using high quality components sourced from the same manufacturers as other big brand names, AT’s speakers have a reputation for producing accurate, linear sound, from cabinets designed to be physically practical and flexible in application.

The appetite for point source speakers hasn’t waned at AT but the company has developed a lot of expertise with the increasingly popular modern line array designs. A big part of AT’s business is custom architectural installations using steerable arrays in difficult environments; court houses, churches, town halls, railway stations, airports, etc. Places where the controlled projection of a line array design can literally cut through the space to the listeners with improved clarity and intelligibility compared to a point source system throwing sound all over the place. Another benefit of the slender arrays in these applications is the discrete looks that help preserve the character of the venue.

SCALING DOWN THE ARRAY

AT’s line array technology gets scaled up for bigger music-based systems. For the largest venues or big music events it offers three sizes of modular

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