Proton 550

[m. zillch]

I haven't seen the room/speakers but mounting speakers up high can be awesome. Tons of people, including pros, do it without complaints. They often fill the entire room more evenly, without furniture obstructions to muck up the sound, and when you have party guests standing/sitting at various points in the room they all get a clear shot to the sound.
Just ask motorcycle collector and audiophile Ann Margret:

Notice all the buttons on her turntable? It allowed automatic direct access to the track (or programming of the sequence) you wanted via a computer-guided optical scanning of the disc surface!

Her top shelf mounted speakers are Acoustic Research, some variety of the AR-2 or AR-3, it is said:

They had tweeter/midrange controls on the back so if they sounded a tad dull if heard off-axis there was a solution!

 

[m. zillch]

This expensive house, I believe named after it's color, white, also used AR speakers mounted as such:

A later tenant, Rosalynn C., apparently liked the sound but not the appearance, so she cleverly concealed them behind acoustically transparent cloth and strategically placed house plants in acoustically-porous wicker baskets:

As I understand it, her general idea of having concealment stuck and later tenants found it most curious how the various rooms of their new home (gear unknown) are filled with great sound yet they can't find the speakers.

Note how even the door is hidden in the house's elliptical-shaped office room.

 

[TLS Guy]

I will try turning the speakers upside down and see how I like that.

You can do that, as the speakers have even order, second. high and low pass, so there is no axis tilt. However, the woofer will be closer to the ceiling and more troublesome reflections may arise. You seem to like it the way it is, so I would leave it alone.

 

[Squishman]

You can do that, as the speakers have even order, second. high and low pass, so there is no axis tilt. However, the woofer will be closer to the ceiling and more troublesome reflections may arise. You seem to like it the way it is, so I would leave it alone.

I'll set that sub up appropriately too when the new amp arrives. I don't even remember where it's set at right now. It's hooked up from the B speaker outs at the moment. sounds good, but it should go from good to awesome next month. It's a Klipsch KSW-10.

 

[Squishman]

Hi-Fi Heaven have them for sale.

That would have been terrific to get one sooner. I did have $22 in rewards points at Crutchfield I was able to apply towards the purchase.