30/04/2026
🇺🇸 CityLight Church in Lincoln, Nebraska is a growing congregation worshiped in a century-old building where audio infrastructure was more improvisation than installation. Long XLR runs disappeared through floors. Quarter-inch lines snaked across ceilings. Overflow rooms were stitched together however they could be.
“When you talk about a church being scrappy, we’re a very MacGyver church,” laughs Alex Neill, Production Director. “You make what you have work. We were running XLRs from the snake on the back of the stage through the floor into the basement. It was nuts.”
HouseRight guided CityLight through demos and system design conversations, ultimately landing on a Yamaha DM7-EX and NEXO P+ loudspeakers.
➡️ From day one, the difference was obvious. “It’s literally night and day,” Neill says. “Training someone on routing - ‘see this button? You can tell it to be a different button if you want.’ You can make it whatever you want.”
“We demoed multiple manufacturers,” says Zach Lahm of HouseRight, the system integrator. . “NEXO was selected based on sightline concerns, the output they needed, the clarity they wanted, and overall value. The church heard the demos and chose NEXO.”
✅ The payoff is consistent sonic fidelity and SPL from front row to back wall - critical for worship moments that build energy and engagement. “In our old building, we had two PA speakers and two subs,” Neill says. “Now, people in the back get the exact same experience as the people in front. It’s night and day.”
