Can monitors lay on there sides ?

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Yup.:) Sorry I missed your post Steve.:o

And you where right to say "you can move your head somewhat from side to side and NOT change the time alignment" for the vertical orientation. If you look at the geometry of most monitors the distance from the listening position to the acoustic centers of the woofers and tweeters changes with the horizontal angle as well. It's just not as dramatic as in the vertical plane.

barefoot
 
Oh yeah, just an extra thought.

Monitors like the Mackies and Genelecs solve this problem as well by positioning the woofer and tweeter acoustic centers in the same vertical axis. This results in a more even horizontal response than normal configurations. But, the tradeoff is the woofer and tweeter are further apart vertically than with most other monitors. This results in a more oblong vertical lobe pattern and a smaller vertical window. Another example is the KRK 7000B. Rather than a horn, it uses a stepped baffle to align the vertical axis while maintaining a smaller woofer/tweeter separation. The problem here however, is that high frequencies from the tweeter can diffract around that edge and reradiate to the listening position. So, there always seems to be a tradeoff somewhere that has to be made.

barefoot
 
So, do dual concentric spreakers solve this problem, or do they have their own different problems as a result?
 
Mark,

You're right on both counts. Dual concentrics do eliminate these lobing issues but they introduce other problems like horn resonances and intermodulation distortion.

barefoot
 
"Can monitors lay on there sides ?"

does the pope crap in the woods?

no wait

does a bear have wooden balls?

no no wait

is Howdy Doody Catholic?

what do I know, I'll stick NS-10's straight up sometimes :)
 
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