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<blockquote data-quote="trumpet" data-source="post: 8282993" data-attributes="member: 628688">Speaker cones radiate sound in all directions equally until the wavelength of the sound approaches and becomes less than the diameter of the cone. A 1&quot; dome style tweeter will begin beaming at roughly ~13,000 Hz. Google &quot;speaker beaming frequency&quot; for a list of articles/discussions about that. This is a great reason to point tweeters at our ears, although in the confined space of a car every point of reflected high frequency sound reaches our ears soon enough after the incident sound that our brain hears it as another &quot;virtual tweeter&quot;.It&#039;s been over a year since I had a traditional speaker setup, but for a time I had 3-way speakers up front with all of the drivers in and on the doors. 6.5&quot; mids low and forward in the factory speaker locations, midrange and tweeter in the forward part of the door in on-axis pods. Time alignment and EQ was provided by JBL MS-8. I had imaging that was mostly above and centered on the dash. Only with hard panned left and right instruments did the stage pull downward on the edges.Without processing you should at least temporarily try your tweeters mounted up high and aimed at your ears. It might sound best to you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trumpet, post: 8282993, member: 628688"] Speaker cones radiate sound in all directions equally until the wavelength of the sound approaches and becomes less than the diameter of the cone. A 1" dome style tweeter will begin beaming at roughly ~13,000 Hz. Google "speaker beaming frequency" for a list of articles/discussions about that. This is a great reason to point tweeters at our ears, although in the confined space of a car every point of reflected high frequency sound reaches our ears soon enough after the incident sound that our brain hears it as another "virtual tweeter". It's been over a year since I had a traditional speaker setup, but for a time I had 3-way speakers up front with all of the drivers in and on the doors. 6.5" mids low and forward in the factory speaker locations, midrange and tweeter in the forward part of the door in on-axis pods. Time alignment and EQ was provided by JBL MS-8. I had imaging that was mostly above and centered on the dash. Only with hard panned left and right instruments did the stage pull downward on the edges. Without processing you should at least temporarily try your tweeters mounted up high and aimed at your ears. It might sound best to you. [/QUOTE]

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