Klipsch LaScala footers

@wolf_garcia 

"Iso acoustics Gaia 2s. They sound fabulous although since they came with my speakers (an upgrade to a pair of Pure Audio Project Duet 15 Horn 1s) I have no idea if they help anything...they do look cool and need to be oriented properly. Also there is absolutely NO reason to have speakers perfectly level, although stable is important (so your drink doesn't fall off)...do people think sound has edges?"

Yeah, I have no idea if the Gaia's help anything but they look cool and have to be oriented properly. Hm, level? Water rings do look cool on top of your speaker cabinets so your buddies can tell you're a party animal. Drink much?

"@wolf_garcia 

do people think sound has edges

Sound certainly diffracts around edges ...

... and I agree that there is no need to level speakers like La Scalas provided they do not rock on their footings"

Yeah, lobing is never an issue especially when the engineers went to extraordinary lengths to perfect the crossover and each driver's position on the front baffle.

Bet you go into an endless dissertation on the subject since I brought it up, ha Bill? Sure, you'll set us straight.

@richardbrand 

"ha Bill"

Ment Richard, you're all like clones of one another, hard to differentiate.

@faustuss 

Yeah, lobing is never an issue especially when the engineers went to extraordinary lengths to perfect the crossover and each driver's position on the front baffle

The speakers in question are horn loaded for every driver - treble, midrange and bass.  The drivers are not positioned on the front baffle.  The bass drivers fire into a labyrinth before reaching their horn which does not even have a front baffle. These speakers are not designed for precision time-alignment but are designed for high efficiency to emulate the volume of a live performance.

@richardbrand 

"The speakers in question are horn loaded for every driver - treble, midrange and bass.  The drivers are not positioned on the front baffle.  The bass drivers fire into a labyrinth before reaching their horn which does not even have a front baffle. These speakers are not designed for precision time-alignment but are designed for high efficiency to emulate the volume of a live performance."

Well, there you go! I never mentioned time alignment. The horn matches the driver's acoustical impedance to that of the room while at the same time keeping the diaphragm's excursions to a minimum which is believed to reduce distortion and exponentially increases the system's efficiency. A driver's position on the baffle is always taken into account along with the crossover's design whether it be 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th order and if the drivers are wired in phase or out of phase and how effects step response and the ear's perception of the system's frequency response in the vertical axis which is quite audible with minute changes in the range of only a few degrees.

Regarding your assertion about time alignment Klipsch has provided a new outboard crossover available with the AL6 series that uses DSP to do just that and extend bass response another half octave if you want to bear the additional expense. Other manufacture's designs achieve their time alignment goals by angling the baffle, aligning the magnet structures, mounting the tweeter below the woofer or mid/woofer and I'm sure there are other techniques I haven't mentioned. All require that the speaker be positioned at the correct height and have the correct orientation at all axis' to be affective. You shouldn't always be so immediately dismissive. 

For the record: Sound does NOT have edges, although brightness can be described as "edgy" maybe. Somebody tell John DeVore and Audio Note to get rid of those damn edges on the boxes as everybody who knows these things knows that's just bad, which explains the horrible reputations of all them pesky boxes. Join the Anti Refraction League and really, where does all that refracted sound go? Mysterious. The Gaia feet really stick to my wood floors which is also sort of cool (concave rubber pad things), and the Pure Audio Project speakers (at least the Duets anyway) are a tripod which makes 'em easy to clean under.