170's on their side

[gr8erimage]

I'm setting up a HT for my father and had a few questions about the 170's. He is planning to place the L/R 170's on bookshelves, but because of measurement reasons, it would be easier to place them on their sides. How will this effect their performance/imaging?

[jeh]

i think it may affect tweeter dispersion, but not certain.

[Eddie Horton]

I would think that if you were sitting withing 15 degrees of on-axis that it wouldn't make much of a difference, like with a MTM center, but I could be wrong. This is a question that should be e-mailed or called in to Ascend. Maybe David Fabrikant could shed some more light on it.

[Lou-the-dog]

Call DaveF. He may suggest that they rotate the tweeter diffuser for you like they do on the 340 center.

Randy

[gr8erimage]

Thanks guys. I'll give Dave a call.

[Mag_Neato]

The 170's do not use a tweeter diffuser.

So long as the speakers are placed as mirror-image, there should be no problem.