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Hi, Panels like Logan CLX or Apogee, or Analysis Audio have asymmetric left and right speakers (soundlabs and Quads don't).
So, if I wanted to set up a multichannel (for Mch classical music), I would not be able to place a single Logan CLX in the center due to the asymmetry. Can it be placed sideways, with the feet on sides? Will this cause dispersion problems?
What do people think? Same case for the Analysis Audio, which has a ribbon on one side, top to bottom, and magnets make up the rest of the speaker. So if placed sideways, the ribbon would go either at the bottom or the top.
Kedar
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I use a Quad 2805 for the centre - it radiates the treble from a point low enough to be below the bottom edge of my pull-down screen, the L+R are the taller 2905s. Works well. This is specifically for MCH classical.
Dave
Edits: 12/12/14
The dispersion pattern will be all wrong. Upright they generate sound as a cylinder sitting on its flat side. On its side it will be like a cylinder laying on its rounded side. Part of the beauty of planars is that you get minimal floor and ceiling reflections. In the arrangement you propose it will be mostly reflecting off the floor.
Thanks. The advice I am getting is "Just use both speakers as one...put them L&R one next to the other and you are done. This way, it would be, I think, the largest center channel speaker, and the shape will be symmetric. When setting at the signal processor, use the large speaker config. Do not use the crossover...and to drive them, use an stereo power amplifier with a Y connector, so you can feed the same mono signal to both speakers.
Kedar
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