Flying Speakers

[E3T]

To me, this is a "no-brainer"; but, here goes anyway: I have been contracted by a company to install the speaker cluster in a church (sorry to say - not KLIPSCH). However, the company's owner wants the speakers installed inverted (low-end driver at the top & high/mid at the bottom. When I questioned this orientation, he informed me that if I checked at any church or club, I would find the speakers installed this way because this is the propper way to hang speakers. Did I miss something?

[lhtf]

It is better to put the low end to the closest boundary. This will get a better bass response from the speaker.

[DrWho]

eek, i just read two articles about this:

http://www.peavey.com/support/technotes/soundsystems/boundarycancellation.cfm

http://www.peavey.com/support/technotes/soundsystems/loudspeaker_array.cfm

and just for the record, the (klipsch) cluster at our church has the subs on top too (but it's a completely different cabinet as well)

[colterphoto1]

Ok, I'm going out in the shop now to flip my KP201's over. THey're on wall brackets about 6" from the 11 foot ceiling.

[thackmate]

if you are flying clusters you may want to alternate the orientation of the cabinets to reduce or hopefully eliminate comb filtering of the HF's. I.E. let's say you are flying a cluster of three speakers near the ceiling then on the outer two of the 3 have the woofers adjacent to the ceiling and the middle speaker opposite.