Line Arrays Have Many Special Features The term "Line Array" is used to describe a loudspeaker system that has multiple loudspeaker units with the same characteristics arranged vertically to simulate a linear sound source. Sound propagating from line array speakers has very little dispersion in the vertical plane compared to standard loudspeakers operating as points, sources where the sound travels with wide dispersion angles in the horizontal and vertical planes. Therefore, the attenuation of sound pressure with distance is small.