stacking speakers?


Hi, I have two seperate systems, one for audio, and one for HT. I use tower speakers for the audio system and bookshelf for the HT. Due to space limitations and speaker placement recommendations ( i.e. fronts HT speakers should the same level as the center speaker) I would like to stack the bookshelfs on top of the towers. Can any one tell me the pro's and/or con's of this? I've already tried looking up past threads on this, but couldn't find anything. Thanks.
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Placing speakers that are being used near other speakers that aren't being used will cause "sympathetic resonances". In other words, the driver producing sound will excite the other drivers not being used. In effect, they would become indirectly coupled passive radiators. This could play games with quite a few various aspects of what you hear and none of them are good. That is why a GOOD "audio salon" only sets up the actual speakers that you are demo'ing and removes all others from the room.

Using that criteria, how many "good" audio salon's do you know of ??? Sean
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