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Many speakers have an uneven power response. Usually the tweeters are only matched to the mids when listened to on-axis. Listened to off axis, the tweeters are still very strong, but the mids drop off a lot (due to beaming in their upper ranges). Result? The tweeters overload the room compared to the mids.This is why waveguides are so useful - they force the tweeters to be more directional, matching the mids, and giving better in-room response. That might explain why you like the sound of only one tweeter - by cutting the # of radiating sources of highs in half, there's less HF energy splashing around the room.
I am beginning to think that we are pushing to much treble info into our soundstage.
This is why waveguides are so useful
Let's think about this for a moment. When I am listening to a Van Gelder recording the highs are almost completely focused to the right side of the soundstage (reasonable when you consider how he placed drum kits.) But if I'm listening to some older Capitol releases, the highs are on the left (Tim Out is a good example, again logical if you look at how the drums were set up.) More modern releases have the drums more or less centered, with the hihat on the right. But I also have a large number of recordings where the engineer recorded the drums backward, placing the hihat on the left. And don't get me started on high percussion placement in classical recordings!So, given that, why would you want to hobble one channel by eliminating the high freqs? If you've got too much crosstalk, or even too much energy fed into the room, then I'd look to either your room or system, but I doubt it's the speaker's fault. Remember, there has to be a signal in the channel for the speaker to produce it.
You may well be right.
Perhaps, then, a little padding is in order. There are better ways to reduce the treble energy than the elimination of the left speaker's tweeter.
If you are disconnecting one tweeter in a stereo array and it sounds better, there is something very wrong in your system, somewhere. While perhaps not always the optimum placement, if pointing your tweeters directly at the LP makes the system unlistenable, there is something very wrong in your system, somewhere.
There was nothing wrong, i have my system setup nice. There is nothing wrong with my stereo array. Its primo actually and i believe its the reason why i am able to assess this. If my system was out of wack it would sound even more out of wack with one tweeter. It doesnt. Like i said i am still hearing tweeter info buts its scaled back considerably. My point from the start was i think we are injecting too much tweeter info into our soundstage and a single off axis tweeter will still generate enough high freq info. My stereo array is still there btw it just has less tweeter in it. But am i missing cymbal information in my left channel is the 64k question?Probably.
Let me through a wrench in here. Some time back we were demonstrating the Omega single driver speaker. A super tweeter was hooked up yes one placed in a center channel position. Using the tweeter like a single sub was the owners choice. I thought to myself before the demo this is not going to sound good. BTW the tweeter was facing backwards and connected to the right ch speaker at ear level height. Well, in a nutshell I stood corrected. Have no explanation as to what we heard. Clearly a more open presentation with added detail and decay of harmonics. Got Me ??charles
Well, using my examples try playing a Blue Note against Time Out and let your own ears be the judge. Then play more modern recordings; can you hear when the drumsets are recorded backwards? What music have you been using to test? Is it possible that the recordings don't have enough specific hf info on both channels? Something is wrong, it's just hard to tell what at this point.All I can tell you is that in my over 30 years as an audiophile and audio salesman, I've never come across anybody making your complaint before. This is new territory for me.
