>The tweeter cone has much less mass than the other drivers, so they propogate sound faster than mid-range or woofer drivers.
While driver mass effects efficiency (that whole force = mass * acceleration thing), it has nothing to do with how soon the sound waves from a driver will reach you.
The other drivers are deeper than a tweeter so their acoustic centers are logically farther back.
Angling the speaker puts you closer to on-axis which will increase tweeter output at high frequencies. It will put you closer to the zero delay plane where output will be maximal for a speaker with Linkwitz Riley even order cross-overs or where odd-order cross-overs sum flat (you get a 3dB peak off-axis).
While driver mass effects efficiency (that whole force = mass * acceleration thing), it has nothing to do with how soon the sound waves from a driver will reach you.
The other drivers are deeper than a tweeter so their acoustic centers are logically farther back.
Angling the speaker puts you closer to on-axis which will increase tweeter output at high frequencies. It will put you closer to the zero delay plane where output will be maximal for a speaker with Linkwitz Riley even order cross-overs or where odd-order cross-overs sum flat (you get a 3dB peak off-axis).