Speakers on floor?

i got a pair of mapleshade stands coming this week. will give impressions once i get them.

Cio52 wrote:
Mapleshade has very good advice on their website and they back it up with a money back guarantee. The low height and tilt back set-up has to do with the Allison Effect (floor boundry bass reinforcement) and time alignment (think Vandersteen or Thiel speakers). The brass footers and wood plinths drain internal vibrations keeping the sound clean. This is a win win if you try them out.

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Tilting speakers back don't time align them and tweeter height is very important to things like perspective and size. I cannot see this working better than stands that place the tweeters at the optimum listening height.

regards,

there is no optimum tweeter height from what i know. some people like at ear level, some at below ear level, or higher then ear level. all subjective i guess.

Many, if not most, speaker owners manuals of the higher end, do speak of tweeter height, at least what I have experienced. But more importantly, they speak of the listeners sweet spot, along with speaker/room interaction.

I'm pretty sure most speakers were designed with tweeter height as a priority. Most speakers put the tweeter above the mid/low driver(s), some put them under, some put them off to the side. It's not a random placement of what looks best.

Most recommend the tweeters at ear height. Some people are sensitive to that, and prefer the tweeter above or below that. Room acoustics have a big impact on this as well, as does toe in.

At the end of the day, no two room, speakers, and sets of ears are alike. Experiment and use whatever works best for you. Trying them on the floor and tilting them up doesn't cost anything if you use stuff around the house to get an idea of what's going on. Same can be said for raising or lowering the speakers.