monitors horizontally?

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I read the manual of my M-Audio BX8 studio monitors and it says that they shouldn't be placed horizontally. Anyone knows why??? I've placed them horizontally and they sound just as good. I am leaving them that way -- unless it can damage them.
 
It won't damage them.... just that imaging usually gets somewhat impaired in that position....

If you don't notice a difference then who cares...! ;)
 
It's not recommened but it should be ok if you set them up correctly.

Here is something I found from a site:
"If you sway from side to side in front of a vertically aligned box (ie, tweeter over the woofer), the distance the sound travels from both drivers to your ears remains unchanged for a wide sweet spot. When the box is on its side, it's common for you to be positioned closer to one driver than the other. Where the two drivers overlap and share sounds around the crossover point, the separate soundwaves combine slightly out of phase from each other. With a 3kHz crossover point, the wavelength will be around 11cm. This means if one driver is heard from a point that1s 5.5cm further away than the other, the entire frequency will disappear due to wave phase cancellation. Incidentally, some manufacturers recess their tweeters into the cabinet for better acoustic alignment with the woofer."

It's got to do with the delay of not hearing both sounds at the same time.
 

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If it sounds good to you then it's fine. Remember to trust your ears.
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that's most helpful!

Actually, I can even hear that effect if I don't sit exactly in the sweet spot, i.e. in the middle between the tweeters & woofers. However: the same applies for a vertical position, too! (moving your head up & down when the monitors are placed vertically).

Also, I made sure that the woofers are at the inside. I guess that sounds better coz its usually hard to hear the stereo image at lower frequencies any, so its better to have the tweeters outside so they have a good stereo projection. For the low frequencies it doesn't realy matter, right? (that's why one sub-woofer is usally enough coz you can't hear stereo at those low freqencies)
 
the maudio books also say to place the tweeters at ear level - (so the cone will be a little lower too).
 
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