odd question about stand-mount speakers

Dynamic is correct. You can end up with a giant suckout or a boosted area in the frequency response where the 2 drivers interact due to their design and the crossover design. 

Oh, ok. Bummer. But that makes sense. I guess as I get closer to making an actual purchase, I could alway contact the manufacturer and see if their specific speaker would be a poor candidate for my experiment. Thanks for the replies.

I have a pair of Buchardt Audio S400 MK II speakers, that are designed with the woofer top/tweeter below. With my speaker stands the tweeter is at ear level. I did try the upside down with the tweeters at ear level, and the soundstage was off…..didn’t try messing around much more, moved them back pretty quickly.

I do use “drum dampener silicone pads” that Mads Buchardt suggested in an email, that do make a very noticeable improvement

Sounds like the old JBL 4311 studio monitors that when they stood upright the woofers were on top. The only problem with flipping speakers upside down is that you’d interfere with the tweeters output and dispersion which may not give you a good soundstage for one thing..interesting though. For near field listening it may be fine though. Worth a try. 

As long as the tweets are at ear level, it probably shouldn’t matter much.