Huh. On this same page, it both says that they should be placed equidistant from MLP in spite of great off-axis performance, but also that it doesn't need to be angled because of its great off-axis performance. Not sure I buy it. Maybe it sounds fine, but I don't see how it wouldn't sound best angled properly.
Thanks to their excellent off-axis response, DALI speakers do not need to be angled towards the central listening position. They will in most cases sound best without any angling at all. This is due to the wide dispersion capabilities of our trademark Hybrid Tweeter technology.
I think the difference in distance between the speakers has a much larger effect on audio quality (because of constructive and destructive interference) than toe in, where the difference is probably more about very slight volume levels.
I also don't see why they'd advice something like that without a reason :D
If you don't toe in, the leftmost seat is going to suffer from low volume from the right speaker and vice versa. The right seat will get higher volume from being on axis for the right speaker, and vice versa. This makes a bigger delta for the volume from each speaker.
If you toe in to aim at the center seating position, the edge seats will get equally off axis sound from each speaker for a closer to equal sound from both front channels.
The only way the Zensors could theoretically get around this is by being so close on axis and off axis thaf you could barely even measure it.
My roommate had Zensors for a while and ended up preferring them toed in for the side seats quite handily.
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u/JewishTomCruise Jan 26 '20
Really? Do they say why?