I noticed they got lazy and designed the center speaker identical to the fronts... They could have at least put the tweeter between the woofer, for those who like the grills off and like symmetrical aesthetics.
Yeah, that's not done out of laziness at all, in speakers that have mid/woffer-tweeter-mid/woofer arrangements, you tend to get a "lobing" effect that cancels out a significant portion of the sound that's being produced, hence the asymmetrical design.
The metal grills on M&K's WERE part of the high-transmission tweeter arrangement found on the 750s that place the tweeter at a ~5 degree angle to improve the narrow sound stage and imaging found in a lot of HT speakers... not sure these silk-dome, stright-ahead tweeter take much advantage of them in the same way.
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I noticed they got lazy and designed the center speaker identical to the fronts... They could have at least put the tweeter between the woofer, for those who like the grills off and like symmetrical aesthetics.
Yeah, that's not done out of laziness at all, in speakers that have mid/woffer-tweeter-mid/woofer arrangements, you tend to get a "lobing" effect that cancels out a significant portion of the sound that's being produced, hence the asymmetrical design.
The metal grills on M&K's WERE part of the high-transmission tweeter arrangement found on the 750s that place the tweeter at a ~5 degree angle to improve the narrow sound stage and imaging found in a lot of HT speakers... not sure these silk-dome, stright-ahead tweeter take much advantage of them in the same way.