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Speaker question
- Thread starter Lucille
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It depends. Some speakers are designed for a particular orientation because of the resonances the speaker can have with the surface it is placed on. As an experiment, take a speaker and elevate it off of the floor with a foam mat or pillow. It will likely sound completely different to you. Just as moving a speaker around the room will uncover "sweet" and "dead" spots. You can emulate this yourself by simply walking around your room and noticing that the speakers will sound differently depending on your own physical listening position in relation to them.
Laying speakers on their sides gives them more contact with the material they are laying on, and will change that resonant interface with the rest of your house. You may be able to defeat this with something as simple as rubber corner bumpers underneath the speaker. Some speaker designs, particularly subwoofers, use spikes to do this to bring that interface to 4 small points. However, this is not recommended for hardwood floors, as you can imagine.
Are you playing real records, as in the vinyl platters on a turn table? If so, these have their own special concerns. You do not want the bass frequencies of the woofers in your speakers interfacing to the turntable through the floor. This will often produce a feedback effect where the bass will resonate through the stylus on the record making a booming effect at a specific frequency. Often this is at 30 to 50 hz.
But in any event, let your own ears decide for you if what you want to do will work. There are so many variables involved that it is impossible to predict what will happen and you simply have to try it by trial and error. And yes, it is entirely possible that there is NO combination that will sound good to you, based on the equipment you are using, and the environment you are trying to put it all into.
Oh, one other thing. Not all speaker enclosures are "designed". They are simply "built". Properly designing a speaker enclosure to mate up perfectly with the speaker drivers being used within it is as much art as it is science. That in itself is why some of the more expensive speakers will cost so much.
Good luck!
Laying speakers on their sides gives them more contact with the material they are laying on, and will change that resonant interface with the rest of your house. You may be able to defeat this with something as simple as rubber corner bumpers underneath the speaker. Some speaker designs, particularly subwoofers, use spikes to do this to bring that interface to 4 small points. However, this is not recommended for hardwood floors, as you can imagine.
Are you playing real records, as in the vinyl platters on a turn table? If so, these have their own special concerns. You do not want the bass frequencies of the woofers in your speakers interfacing to the turntable through the floor. This will often produce a feedback effect where the bass will resonate through the stylus on the record making a booming effect at a specific frequency. Often this is at 30 to 50 hz.
But in any event, let your own ears decide for you if what you want to do will work. There are so many variables involved that it is impossible to predict what will happen and you simply have to try it by trial and error. And yes, it is entirely possible that there is NO combination that will sound good to you, based on the equipment you are using, and the environment you are trying to put it all into.
Oh, one other thing. Not all speaker enclosures are "designed". They are simply "built". Properly designing a speaker enclosure to mate up perfectly with the speaker drivers being used within it is as much art as it is science. That in itself is why some of the more expensive speakers will cost so much.
Good luck!