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In Reply to: addendum posted by Duke on March 25, 2007 at 04:42:11:
The manufactuer assured me that the speakers actually sound better on higher stands, even higher than the ones I have.
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Finding out whether moving the speakers closer to the floor sounds better TO YOU would only cost you a little time. It may or may not solve more problems than it creates. You can put 'em directly on the floor to see what that sounds like, then on a stack of books to see what that sounds like, and so forth.Assuming the speakers have first-order crossovers, getting the angles between drivers & ears right will matter in the crossover region. So if you like the tonal balance better close to the floor but the imaging isn't as good, try putting a small shim under the cabinet in the front to tilt them back just a little and restore proper ear/driver geometry.
The speakers don't have a crossover, just a capacitor in series with the tweeter.I will definitely play with the positioning after I move into my new place.
Acoustically, they do have a crossover. The ad copy may say "crossoverless", but that refers to a lack of the electrical components that are typically used to induce an acoustic rolloff. The signal crosses from the woofer at low frequencies to the tweeter at high frequencies; if nothing else that's an acoustic crossover. The presence of a capacitor on the tweeter makes it an electro-acoustic crossover.The woofer obviously rolls off all by itself (either due to cone mass or voice coil inductance or both), and the tweeter may well have some acoustic rolloff in addition to the 6 db per octave imparted by the cap. Whether the net acoustic slopes are first order (6 dB per octave) or second order (12 dB per octave), I do not know.
First order crossovers are very sensitive to driver physical alignment, whereas second order crossovers are not. So if the net acoustic slopes are first order, then the tonal balance and imaging will benefit from aligning the drivers properly with respect to ear location.
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