Shock-Late Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 Being the happy owner of an old pair of pro-Scalas with splitted cabinet, I decided this morning to do something I never wanted to do before because it just didn't seem good in theory. I put my top (mid-high) cabinets on their sides, on top of the bass horn, so that both the tweeter and midrange horns are now in vertical position. Well I suspected bad results, or at least less good than with the horns in the horizontal position. In fact it doesn't sound bad at all; different, but I rather like it. The mids seem clearer, less blurred, and the stereo seems better too; what's amazing is that the "sweeet spot" seems now wider than before (contrary to what I expected) I cannot explain it; i know the tweeter was originally created to be mounted vertically, but that shouldn't be the case for the midrange horn who isn't a diffraction horn.... I remember having seen that on a pair of home-made horn speakers with Vitavox mid horns; those horns where mounted vertically because, as the owner said, "it helped domesticating a system originally made for large rooms such as concert halls" Now I still need a few more hours listenings to "hear" for eventual drawbacks; it stills disturbs me in theory. It SHOULDN'T sound good that way!!! grrrrrrrrrr!!!! It just looks awful, however! To be continuated... Frans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Klappenberger Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Frans, I am not really very surprised at all. The K77 tweeter has better dispersion mounted vertically. I don't think that's true for the squawker though. The best deal would be to just turn the tweeter on it side and leave the squawker horizontal. Al K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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