My speaker's have slopped front with speakers pointing a little higher than listening position. I've read in one of the reviews that it was done to avoid "closed" sound - so called "cupped hands" effect.
time-aligned speakers: stepped fronts vs. sloping fronts
Let me first say my understanding of these things is rudimentary.
But I was thinking about manufacturers who used stepped back fronts (several vertical planes) to achieve so-called time-alignment, vs. those who slope back the whole front baffle at a certain angle/rake.
Thinking about, for instance, the tweeter driver mounted on a sloped baffle, won't its axis of radiation be shooting at a corresponding angle upward, meaning that a listener located directly in front of the speaker and with ears at tweeter height would already be listening off-axis? Or am I missing something? Or is that the point?