POSITION OF THE LOUDSPEAKER

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 12

POSITION OF THE LOUDSPEAKER

| pu position in which a loudspeaker | gives the most satisfactory sound effect depends almost entircly, of course, upon the type of sound projector embodicd in the instrument, Ordinary cone loudspeakers give a good general distribution of sound wayes, and are, therefore, not sensitive, as a rule, to the position in a voor in which they are worked. Horn-type loudspeakers (and, to @ certain extent, moving-coil speakers) huve rather more pronounced ‘direclional"? properties, and are largels affected by the position of objects in a room, When a horn-type loudspeaker is eperated in a room containing many sound reflecting obiects it is advisable to mount the speaker at a fair height from the floor. This prevents air-wave formations from being checked too much by tables, chairs, and so forth-a condition which is very likely to obtain when the londspeuaker is situated at the usnal "table? height from the ~ ground,