From: nobody@but.us.chickens   
      
   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. I remember the advice given back in the 70s and   
   80s: get those speakers off the floor!   
      
   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.   
      
   Of course, much depends on many factors: the floor covering, room   
   geometry, etc., etc. Carpeted floors can't be good for *any* speakers.   
      
   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.   
      
      
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