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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.