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Tweeter on the bottom. Anyone listen in this manner? Just curious and thanks in advance.
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I'm new to all of this...I don't think I have ever seen a speaker with the tweeter on the bottom.
Mine are mounted a little high -- can't be helped.
Some years ago the top of the line Dynaudio was the consequence model at $25,000 a pair. These were about 5 foot tall 5 ways with an upside down arrangement(woofer at the top and in descending order midrange, upper midrange, tweeter and super tweeter at the very bottom. It worked.
I have quad esl 63's. What are woofers and tweeters?:)
We have a pair of PSB Stratus Minis in the family room with the TV and they have the woofer on top and the tweeter on the bottom.There's a very interesting interview of Paul Barton by John Atkinson on the Stereophile site, linked below, and he explains his reasoning on pages 4 and 5. It's a design consideration.
The speakers in my main system have the tweeter on the top and the woofer on the bottom, so I'm not prejudiced in favor of one way or the other.
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My 2 channel TV setup is compromised in terms of possible speaker placement, and given the off-axis properties of high frequencies, I'm better off putting my little JBLs upside down so that the tweeter axis is more inline with my ears in the 'sitting on sofa' position. The improvment was slight because the axis' still don't quite line up, but it was better. A situation like mine are the only reason I'd use the speakers upside down.
Almost everybody who has Mission bookshelf speakers listens that way.
If I turned my monitors upside down, the tweeter would be on top. ;^)As far as the differences go, it would seem to be an easy enough experiment to try.
As someone said, performance depends on the polar pattern. Some speakers are purposely designed with the tweeter below the woofer or mid/woofer and a 15 degree upward polar tilt of the tweeter is achieved by the crossover design.
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