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Adjusting for Tweeter height with monitors

This may be a dumb question but how do you guys go about making sure your ears and tweeters are properly aligned?  After all, stands only come in a few sizes. Do you use height-adjustable chairs? 

I have to raise my Silverline monitors high enough to ensure the woofers clear obstructing furniture and in so doing, the tweeters end up about 4 inches higher than ear-level, when seated, which has a negative sonic effect. Rising up out of my chair a few inches, the sound is much better. My wife has volunteered to make me a tall seat cushion to compensate but this makes me wonder how others approach this.

stuartk
petaluman
218 posts
 

Be careful if you do choose to tilt the speakers.  Most of the weight is on the front baffle so aiming them downwards could make them tippy.

mark200mph
825 posts
 

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mylogic
835 posts
 

Tweeters a few inches too low?
 

The French in the past often used a bespoke device that could possibly be modified, to slice a few inches off your neck.

stuartk OP
3,993 posts
 

@blackbird55 

I'm curious. How did you determine the optimal height for my speakers? 

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pindac
3,825 posts
 

There isn't an optimal height "Par Se", the room has a substantial influence on the Speaker, being an environment very very different to the environment the Speakers were created in by the design team.

Speakers are a bit like a military plan, the Plan remains excellent until the opposition are engaged, then the training and principles of the Team become the structure that is depended on for success.

The design for a Speaker is excellent until the Speaker become the item used in a the New Environment. Only then does the secondary requirements take precedence, which is how to best couple the Speakers within the space to perform at their most optimised. 

In many cases a tilt to a front baffle has the positive effect for the End Sound being listened to, but is definitely not the full resolve to the issue.     

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