We plan to buy a couple of XD-V70 Systems in the next weeks to replace our Sennheiser EW500 G2 Systems we currently use.

And therefore I have a question regarding the placement of the antennas in our room.

Our room is about 60 feet long and 40 foot wide. FOH with the receivers is located in the back, stage in front.

As a rule of thumb I learned, that for the Sennheiser 800MHz Systems:

1. the antenna paddels should be located not too far away from each other because of limiting the True-Diversity feature, if the antennas receiving much different signals (e.g. left and right sidewall of the room)

2. it's better to place the antennas at a greater but equal distance to the transmitter, than closer but at unequal distances (e.g. at the sides of the stage when one transmitter is very close to one antenna and another one more far away) because it also limits the ability of the receiver to use True-Diversity.

How is this with the Line6 System? In the Advanced Guide I read, one possible placement of the antenna paddels was to each side of the stage. Are there any diversity problems, using more than one transmitter? Or are the guidelines described above only for analog systems and not existing anymore in the digital world?

And a second part of the quesion is, what is the better placement:

In the back centerof the room (height about 10 feet), with short antenna cable length to the receiver (15 feet) but people wearing the beltpack on their sides or back

versus

placing the paddels to the left and right side of the stage (or one behind the stage) with much longer antenna cable length (80 feet) but much shorter and better positions in relation to the transmitter?

Thanks for your help!

  Frank