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Greetings,

In the course of moving furniture around my office area I had cause to move my speakers, a pair of PMC TB-2 monitors. I used to own Vandersteen 1Cs and had a PDF from Vandersteen about speaker placement. In it there are several methods outlined to measure the space for good placement starting points. The measurements all refer to the speaker's "acoustic center". What exactly is that? The vertical plane of the tweeter? Woofer? Something else?

Thanks for your help.
roybatty
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Actually- The "acoustic center" of a dynamic driver is the point at which the voice coil attaches to the cone, dome or diaphragm. When "time aligning" drivers in a system, these are the points of the drivers that are "aligned".
roybatty OP
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In a 2 way system where the drivers are not time aligned, is it, for the purposes of measuring distance to the acoustical center, more useful to use the woofer or the tweeter? I'm guessing that it would be the woofer, since lower frequencies are more directly coupled with room boundaries.
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shadorne
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In a 2 way system where the drivers are not time aligned, is it, for the purposes of measuring distance to the acoustical center, more useful to use the woofer or the tweeter?

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