Toe in and line source designs

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tomlinmgt

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Toe in and line source designs
« on: 6 May 2025, 04:10 pm »
Do line source designs tend to favor a particular amount of toe in or is that going to be purely dependent on room interaction, speaker to speaker to listening spot distance relationship, driver type and dispersion characteristics, etc?  With my LS6's, I can't say I'm hearing any significant changes as I move from straight ahead/zero toe in to axis firing at my shoulders.  Maybe the image focus tightens up a bit as toe in increases, but not to any noteworthy degree. I've only experimented a little, so I'm far from drawing any of my own conclusions...just curious what others have experienced.

Danny Richie

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Re: Toe in and line source designs
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 09:18 pm »
The LS-6 has a pretty low crossover point. So moving left or right really doesn't change the response too much.

It all depends on your room acoustics as to whether or not the toe in (or out) changes the size of the sound stage for you or changes image focus.

VinceT

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Re: Toe in and line source designs
« Reply #2 on: Today at 01:12 am »
I have the LS-9's

I would also say the size of the room matters as well. My room is pretty big and speakers are far apart probably in comparison to most. So for my room, a little toe in helps with center image focus and also sound stage depth.