The Kali IN-5 says that it's designed for slight off-axis placement to the lister, such as 10 degrees past an equilateral triangle. This raises the high frequency power, whereas being perfectly on axis creates a dip. This is a coaxial design consequence.
With this in mind, does anything change in the beginning measurement stages? I understand later when you have to move around the room, you can still point it towards the center, even if they are slightly off axis…. but what about when you measure the woofer or tweeter in the beginning? Would that have any consequence on the end result? I would think not since it's all the positional movements that come later that do actual frequency measuring, but I want to run it by you beforehand since I haven't bought these yet.
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controlstep I can't say we've heard of this setup aspect for the Kali's before, but here's my assessment if I've understood it correctly:
So the way I understand it, instead of pointing directly at your listening spot, the speaker placement angles should be adjusted in a way that they point to a location slightly behind your actual listening spot? If this is the case, nothing should change in the measurement process.
Even if speakers point to a spot slightly behind your actual listening spot, you still want to establish the initial listening spot measurement where it actually is, regardless of the speaker angles. You'll still want to measure the freq. response at your actual listening spot center (and further measurements in the radius around it). This should be the correct solution.
Let me know if I've missed anything though, thank you!
Yes, that's correct. Good to know nothing changes.