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Posted by jey on Aug-08-2006 17:00:

monitors position???

hi,

ive my monitors positioned they way the leflet that came wiv them told me to, tweeter at ear level and monitors standing vertical but i see in alot of pro studios the monitors sitting horizontal so was wondering is there a benefit to this???

Posted by No Left Turn on Aug-09-2006 01:03:

Leave them the way you have them. There's not really a benefit because setting a vertical speaker on its side will cause some phasing of certain frequencies, and that's not a good thing.

The only reason why you'll see monitors like the NS-10's on their side nowadays, is that that's how they were set up "back in the day" and all the pro engineers and producers got used to them that way. If the speaker was built to be stood upright, set it up that way. Some speakers are designed to be set on their side, though, in which case you would want to do that.

Posted by Diginerd on Aug-09-2006 03:09:

Orienting a speaker ina a manner that it wasn't designed for can produce all kinds of nasty artifacts. not least a total collapse of your stereo image..

Posted by jey on Aug-09-2006 13:17:

great answers, cheers for that

Posted by Vizay on Aug-09-2006 14:42:

if it sounds good it is good, as long as you know that you have control over the sound you can hang them upside down, have them horisontaly, verticaly, with the back against you, with a screwdriver in the tweeter etc. etc.