Hi, tonight while listening to some music I noticed that it seemed that more sound was coming from the right speaker. The center phamtom image was also skewed to the right side a bit. At first I checked my balance settings, then my cables...everything was as they should be. I started to worry that maybe my left speaker was blown or something. Then I noticed that my left speaker was "toed" in a bit. Straightening this out fixed everything. I got a nice, smooth LR spread of music with a good center phantom image.
So I was wondering if someone could explain to me why toeing in the left speaker resulted in the right speaker seeming louder? I tried to research the BW website and this was all I could find..
"To offset this a little, you can use the fact that a speaker’s response decreases in level off axis. Toeing the speakers in, so they point at or just in front of the central listener can help to reduce the central image movement. If you move nearer to, say, the right speaker, the increase in its loudness is offset by your being more off axis. Conversely, you move more on axis to the left speaker, which offsets the fact that you are further away."
What does "off axis" mean? Is the above paragraph related to what I experienced?
Just curious about the scientific rationale....
So I was wondering if someone could explain to me why toeing in the left speaker resulted in the right speaker seeming louder? I tried to research the BW website and this was all I could find..
"To offset this a little, you can use the fact that a speaker’s response decreases in level off axis. Toeing the speakers in, so they point at or just in front of the central listener can help to reduce the central image movement. If you move nearer to, say, the right speaker, the increase in its loudness is offset by your being more off axis. Conversely, you move more on axis to the left speaker, which offsets the fact that you are further away."
What does "off axis" mean? Is the above paragraph related to what I experienced?
Just curious about the scientific rationale....
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