A 3 way gives you the opportunity to avoid the interference as mayhem13 mentioned.
Floor bounce speakers.
However for large speakers with a low cut off frequency like active 3 way main monitoring systems the distance needed to bump the cancellation frequencies below the lf cut off simply becomes too big for most listening rooms and control rooms.
When is floor bounce a problem.
For example if your speakers have a 3 db low cut off at 55 hz d min 2 18 meters 7 3.
Maybe you re scared your pets child will knock them down and damage your precious speakers.
The dual 5 5 inch aluminum cone woofers are low mounted to produce thundering bass while reducing floor bounce and the folded motion tweeter ensures the high frequency sounds are clear.
All bookshelf speakers suffer from this because the woofer is placed high.
The dual 5 5 inch aluminum cone woofers are low mounted to produce thundering bass while reducing floor bounce and the folded motion tweeter ensures the high frequency sounds are clear.
The dip in response at 300 hz is floor bounce and can be for the most part disregarded.
Speakers are described as two way three way four way etc.
With horns it gets interesting since the vertical dispersion can be quite different for different horns covering different frequency ranges leading to a floor reflection.
The mid network is a 1st order hp followed by a 2nd.
As the name implies floorstanding speakers also referred to as tower speakers sit on the floor or an attached outrigger type stand.
The woofer crosses to the mid at approximately 350 hz.
Whatever the reason plenty of people place their audio speakers on the floor.
Here s why you might want to reconsider.
Floor bounce is caused by the sound that bounces off the floor between the listener and the speakers being out of phase at certain frequencies usually between 100 and 300 hz and partially canceling the direct sound causing a dip in the frequency response at those frequencies.
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Or maybe you re going for a college chic aesthetic with everything from your mattress to your tv on the floor.
Maybe you hate the way audio speaker stands look.
But at least for me i have decided to live with my horizontal 3 way for my center channel that does not address floor bounce.
The sharp suckout at 390 hz is the response with the woofer phase reversed showing good phase correlation between the woofer and midrange drivers.
In the listening room the floor bounce overlays the entire orchestra and again the physical size of the speaker controls how diffuse the floor reflection is going to be.
Depth can vary from about nine inches to two feet.