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My understanding is that we mainly perceive change in height of a sound source as tonal shift. If a center speaker must be placed below ear level, is there any way to calculate a compensation EQ?
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How to compensate for center speaker that isn’t ear level?
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OP
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Why not angle to up to point at the listening position? I have mine with a slight tilt upwards just for that reason.
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The sound will still reach your ears at an angle
dasdoing
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I am starting to think that in practical terms the phantom center is superior. there is a way to make the sweet spot bigger with a phantom center by angeling the speakers 45 degrees or more. the dispersion pattern has to match, though. this is something that deserves a seprate topic
I might be wrong here and, if so, I apologise in advance but I think you will find that these kind of phenomena are confined to when the source(s) are actually moving. i.e. a Doppler effect.
When everything is static, no issue.
To a center down below? That's not our experience at all. But surely it depends on individual room and system geometry. Note that a phantom center can never really sound the same as a real one, because the room reflections are different. Tom Holman used to go around giving a demonstration of that.
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I was robbed half my quote lol
