Double Front Planars

[E-Stat]

I don't suppose that turning the outside pair 180 degrees (kinda like inverting your top pair of Advents) would be a satisfactory solution. However, this would eliminate the horizontal offset for the tweeters.

I don't see how. There will still be two discrete verical tweeter slits offset by a number of inches. Reversing them merely changes that distance. Stacking them, however, WOULD put them in the same horizontal plane.

Even with the multi-panel Tympani series, Magnepan used a single tweeter line source.

rw

[bubslewis]

I don't see how. There will still be two discrete verical tweeter slits offset by a number of inches. Reversing them merely changes that distance. Stacking them, however, WOULD put them in the same horizontal plane.

Even with the multi-panel Tympani series, Magnepan used a single tweeter line source.

rw

Thanks for your input. Not having a great deal of knowledge in this field (I majored in history!), after reading your responses I spent a couple of hours on the internet reading up on line source speaker principles and other related info. Very complicated stuff.

But at least now I have a rudimentary understanding of how a line source tweeter works (particularly as opposed to a point source tweeter). Bottom line: based on your feedback and the stuff I read, it seems like the bads might outweigh the goods in placing Magnepan style planars side by side. Sacrifice of imaging and cohesiveness of sound not a worthwhile trade-off for wider sound stage, improved dynamics.

thanks again,
Bill