Originally Posted by
Marco
Yup, that's interesting, but I should stress the point I was making was not that side-firing drivers are a flawed design, per se, but simply in most modern rooms, particularly when you're not listening near-field.
They're just not easy to get to work right.
Love or loathe big Tannoys, for example [down Jerry:D], they're amongst the easiest speakers to get to work in a room I've ever used, despite their significant size - and I suspect that the large single-driver/wide baffle arrangement, and how they're ported, is a big part of that.
Marco.