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Speakers on top of subwoofer

Is mounting a speaker on top of a sub a bad idea?  Specifically, a Harbeth 40.x mounted with isolators on each corner so the cabinet can flex/breath on top of a Rythmyk E15  I have a limited amount of floor space and the Rythmyk is a little taller than a Tonteger which is a good thing since the Tons are a little short to place the tweeter around my ear height.  

lewl28
gdaddy1
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@ghdprentice    Don't do this? Wilson is doing it wrong?  BTW...these go down to 20 HZ.   B&W, TAD and many others do the same split configuration.

 

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ditusa
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@gdaddy1 +1

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ken6217
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You're placing your speakers in the optimal position for your listening. That doesn't mean that is the optimal position for the subs. Sub placement will be trial and error until you find the optimal placement.

immatthewj
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Are those the 40.3 XDs?  Those must be some nice speakers!

steakster
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The Wilson Audio speaker cabinets are designed to be mounted. The Harbeth isn’t.

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Excepted from this article.

Wilson Audio has long put much stock in the composite materials they make their cabinets from. X-Material, the primary material . . .

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The S-Material, which is used for the company’s front baffles, "provides a neutral and natural surface . . . "

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The new V-Material, which is used where two parts of the cabinet come together, "behaves like a vibration absorber," according to Wilson. It is used in the top panel of the woofer cabinet, where the objective, clearly, is to keep vibrations from the woofer cabinet from reaching the gantry and the lowest gantry-mounted driver . . .

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