New speaker project

[blank527]

Hi,

Currently I'm in the process of building a new speaker project.
I bought already the woofers and tweeter. (second hand)
The whole alignment will be in d'appolito.
The units I want to use are:
2x Scan Speak 15W8530K00
1x Fountek NeoPro5i ribbon tweeter (per speaker)

In the picture shown, I removed the front plate of the tweeter and mounted the woofers to it, to make it as close as possible.

Now I got a question.
Is it better to have the ribbon off-axis of the enclosure, or in the centre?

Best regards,
Remco

 

[wigginjs]

I would think it would be better to have it (or any driver) with un-equal spacing from all edges of the baffle to avoid resonances. I don't think this is any more or less important with a ribbon. Because of the poor vertical dispersion pattern of ribbon drivers I would ensure that it is vertically on-axis with the intended listening position, but ribbons have relatively good horizontal dispersion so shifting it around horizontally should make much difference.

This is my understanding, hope it helps.

 

[Jay_WJ]

I'd not use an MTM 2-way crossover with such large spacing between woofers. Use a TMM 2.5-way crossover with either MTM or TMM driver positions.