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K-array Lyzard KZ1 I — SPL & coverage

Problem. A 20 x 12 m restaurant dining room needs even background-music coverage without the cabinet becoming a visual or acoustic distraction at the table. The real decision is whether a compact point-source cabinet like the K-array Lyzard KZ1 I can hold a comfortable listening level out to the far tables at a sensible drive setting.

Answer. For a listener seated 6 m from the cabinet at 50% drive, the planner reports an SPL of approximately 67 dB — a calm background-music level for dining, well under the 86 dB @1 m rated maximum. The 140 deg x 140 deg dispersion gives a horizontal (-6 dB) coverage half-width of approximately 16.5 m, comfortably spanning the room's 20 m length from a single mounting position.

02 / In depth

How this preset reads — the engineering view.

The Lyzard KZ1 I is rated 86 dB SPL at 1 m. Sound pressure falls with distance under the inverse-square relationship, so at 6 m and full output the planner shows roughly 70 dB; wound back to a 50% drive setting for background dining use, that becomes approximately 67 dB at the listener — headroom intact, nothing straining.

The cabinet's 140 deg x 140 deg (H x V) dispersion is unusually wide for a point source, which is what produces the approximately 16.5 m horizontal coverage half-width on the -6 dB axis. A wide, symmetrical pattern favours even near-field fill across tables close to and away from the cabinet rather than throw down a narrow corridor. Being a passive cabinet, the Lyzard KZ1 I needs matched external amplification sized to the room and programme material — it has no onboard power stage.

In the planner, drag the listener-distance and drive-level controls to watch the reported SPL move in real time. The box-count figure the planner returns is a front-coverage area estimate only; treat the SPL-at-listener figure as the separate feasibility check for whether the level is actually adequate at that seat.

The planner does not model room reverberation or RT60, so a hard-surfaced dining room will read louder in practice than the free-field figure shown here. It also does not handle zoning across distinct areas (bar vs dining vs patio), subwoofer pairing for low-frequency extension, the mechanical rigging of a cabinet array, or DSP/delay tuning between multiple boxes — all of these sit downstream of this coverage estimate.

What this preset deliberately does not solve

  • SPL figures are free-field, inverse-square estimates — real rooms with hard floors and low ceilings will read louder due to reverberant build-up.
  • The coverage half-width uses the cabinet's rated dispersion angle; off-axis response and real-world boundary reflections are not modelled.
  • Box count is a front-coverage estimate only, not a substitute for a measured or simulated acoustic design.

How this preset differs from its siblings

Other point-source options in this planner carry higher rated SPL and narrower dispersion, which suits larger rooms or louder programme material at the cost of a more directional pattern. The Lyzard KZ1 I's combination of a modest 86 dB @1 m rating with an unusually wide 140 deg x 140 deg pattern makes it a near-field, even-fill specialist rather than a high-SPL or long-throw cabinet — this page exists so a visitor evaluating this specific cabinet for a small-to-medium room sees its actual SPL and coverage numbers rather than a generic point-source result.

02 / What that means, drawn

Plan view, drawn to one scale in both directions. The room is 20.00 m deep by 12.00 m wide, with the cabinet on the front wall and the listener 6.00 m down the axis. K-array Lyzard-KZ1 I has a nominal horizontal pattern of 140°, so the covered shape is a wedge whose apex is at the CABINET, not a circle around the listener. The wedge is drawn at half that angle either side of the axis. At the listener's distance that wedge is 32.97 m across — 16.48 m either side of the axis. That width is the published figure, and it is the only coverage quantity this tool establishes. The room is 12.00 m wide there, so one cabinet covers the full width with 20.97 m to spare across the two edges combined. The wedge is the nominal beamwidth drawn with straight edges. It is not a measured -6 dB contour, and it is a HORIZONTAL quantity only: no vertical coverage, and no covered area, is claimed here. This cabinet's vertical pattern is 140°, and the difference between the two is exactly why a single circular figure would misstate the covered patch.

This preset’s geometry, drawn to one scale in both directions from the same derivation the calculator below uses. The wedge is K-array Lyzard-KZ1 I’s nominal 140° horizontal pattern, not a measured contour, and no vertical coverage or covered area is claimed. Move the controls below to change it.

03 / Hydrated calculator

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