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Originally Posted by primemeat64  .... saw that the engineer had his monitors sideways... |
some quick thoughts about your signature quote: (boring techie stuff that I wanted to mention, it's totally unrelated to the thread though, but I'm posting my thoughts and while I'm stating them as facts, if there are other opinions I'd love to hear them... there's always room for differing ideas!)
So imho there's actually nothing wrong with having your monitors sideways if you're sitting in the sweet spot. What it gives is greater vertical dispersion without phasing where as the lateral dispersion will be subject to the phase problems of having two drivers playing the same frequencies through the crossover point while being several inches apart. You have phase issues either way, most of us have them vertically with upright traditional speakers. If you want to have people standing behind you listening and hearing it well, turn 'em sideways and make sure your control room has plenty of absorption on the side walls. if you want your other musicians to hear it better a little off the X axis but at perfect seated listening height then keep 'em upright and make sure your ceiling is absorbing well. Either way, there's only one perfect listening position and if you aim your monitors exactly at your ears then they can be upside down or sideways or on a 22 degree angle, it doesn't matter as long as you take it into account when damping your room or your room is otherwise not affecting the sound either way.
I personally prefer them vertical since I care more about lateral dispersion in my particular room, but there are times when sideways is better (like when I have two sets of monitors and want them on top of each other due to lack of space, I'd prefer to have the vertical dispersion improved in that case so they go sideways, also they're both closer to ideal listening position that way which is an improvement).
Just wanted to elucidate on your signature quote :-)
I still like your quote by the way LoL
cheers,
Don