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Please help with sideways speaker installation

I am setting up a new home theater system and need to place my bookshelf mains on their sides. These are Paradigm Studio 20 v.3. I have the matching Paradigm center between the two bookshelf speakers of course. My question is should the tweeters on the sideways bookshelf speakers be to the inside (closet to center speaker) or to the outside? I can’t tell much difference listening to music but haven’t watched any movies yet.

fishcaller
fishcaller OP
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I had a listen last night and surprisingly they sound best with the tweeters to the outside. I thought tweeters to inside would be better but not in may situation. 

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yogiboy
5,665 posts
 

Why are you surprised? That is the correct position for sideway placement!

erik_squires
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Normally oriented 2 way speakers often have better response below the tweeter axis than above it. They measure better at the midwoofer axis than above.

This has to do with low order-ish crossovers and phase mismatching above the tweeter.

Any number of Stereophile measurements will show this.

With 4th order filters this matters less .

 

Wisurround speakers I would move the tweets to rear and point the woofers to your seat

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