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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8184947" data-attributes="member: 655960">There are also white crows but those few of the many don&#039;t cause us to say crows are not black.And I would argue that no tweeter does VERY well off axis. I would say those tweeters that must be placed off axis are too harsh and thus, aren&#039;t such good tweeters for a sound quality install. If all you&#039;re interested is sound pressure, then a metal tweet or some sort of super tweeter might be the order of the day but they aren&#039;t designed for sound quality in a vehicle.As for where I got the notion that being on axis is ideal... it&#039;s common knowledge among audiophiles and has been for decades. Many people design their entire listening rooms around speaker placement for the sole purpose of having their drivers on axis with the listener and they do that not because they&#039;re eccentric but because it sounds better. Likewise, a properly designed car audio system has the tweeters (and as much of the rest of the front stage as possible) on axis with the listeners.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8184947, member: 655960"] There are also white crows but those few of the many don't cause us to say crows are not black. And I would argue that no tweeter does VERY well off axis. I would say those tweeters that must be placed off axis are too harsh and thus, aren't such good tweeters for a sound quality install. If all you're interested is sound pressure, then a metal tweet or some sort of super tweeter might be the order of the day but they aren't designed for sound quality in a vehicle. As for where I got the notion that being on axis is ideal... it's common knowledge among audiophiles and has been for decades. Many people design their entire listening rooms around speaker placement for the sole purpose of having their drivers on axis with the listener and they do that not because they're eccentric but because it sounds better. Likewise, a properly designed car audio system has the tweeters (and as much of the rest of the front stage as possible) on axis with the listeners. [/QUOTE]

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