I read this article on Audioholics
http://www.audioholics.com/education/loudspeaker-basics/vertical-vs-horizontal-speaker-designs
Not sure if Chris or Clint wrote it, but cool article. Anyway, I had a couple of thoughts. If it is almost always better to place the speakers in a verticle design, why don't more speaker companies design differently to account for this. I understand the space constraints of up and down, vs. along your TV or projector, but even some of the people with very nice systems and a lot of space seem to keep their center vertical.
Next, I have a friend who has the Klipsch RF-64. It is a huge beast.
http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/rc-64.aspx
His system sounds great, but I wonder if it wouldnt be better to have it vertically. I would love to see the above mentioned tests done on this speaker. Maybe he could put it behend a perf. screen in vertical.
Also, would it be inherent that a smaller, few driver system would sound better, such as the smaller RD-62
http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/rc-62.aspx
and if so, why would Klipsch make a larger, poorer sounding speaker that costs more? For that matter, why wouldn't everyone just use one driver of each type (woofer, tweeter) so even less interference wouldn't happen?
Just peaked my curiosity. Thanks for any replies.
Roly