[Arny Krueger]

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 8/26/2010 5:55 PM Eeyore spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 8/22/2010 4:53 AM Arny Krueger spake thus:

They were intended to be floor-standing, check the
classic speaker pages ads:

Yes, I know that; it's just that they'd probably sound
better off the floor

What makes you think that ?

Intuition.

Granted, I don't have the technical knowledge about audio
that you and others here do, so I'm not looking to start
an argument here. It's just that to me, it seems
counterintuitive to place any speaker on the floor and
expect good results.

To you.

Speakers that are designed to be floor standing should be used that way.

I remember the advice given back in
the 70s and 80s: get those speakers off the floor!

That applied to speakers designed for bookshelf installation.

It seems to me (again, my untutored intuition) that while
low frequencies would project fine with a woofer placed
close to the floor, anything higher--say, 400 Hz
up--would suffer from such placement.

Not suffer, be changed.

Of course, much depends on many factors: the floor
covering, room geometry, etc., etc. Carpeted floors can't
be good for *any* speakers.

Simply not true.

I'm certainly willing to be proven wrong here. It just
has never seemed like a good idea to me to put speakers
on the floor, and I was frankly surprised to run across
this specimen of KLH speaker which was obviously designed
for that very placement.

That's the key - speakers need to be designed for specific postitioning, and
end-users need to make that one criteria for acquisition.