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Ahh...

As far as I know the relative position of "main vs center vs surround" is important when encoding but the relative position of woofer vs. tweeter in the same speaker is not important.

The idea behind turning them upside down is just that high frequencies are more directional than low frequencies so having your ears not centered on the woof/mids won't make anywhere near as much difference as having your ears not centered on the tweeter.

I always ran my speakers upside down whenever I had to mount them high, always felt that was better than the alternatives.

My M60s are right-side up 'cause they are on the floor, and the M2s are right-side up 'cause I finally have stands of the right height

In short, Matt, it makes no difference in what you've raised whether a speaker has the tweeter above or below the woofer.

Okay, so by turning them upside down, the imaging is still pinpoint accurate? I'm thinking I might try this myself to see, but that would involve reversing work that took awhile to do. I always thought that the way each channel was manipulated was that vocals sent to the right channel were diffused "inward" meaning left, and the vocals sent to the left channel were diffused rightward, thus having a centered vocal image. So my logical thinking is that if you reverse the positioning, the speaker doesn't know any better and sends the information the way it was told. Meaning if they are turned upside down, the data would leave the speaker in the opposite direction and the vocals would diffuse outward and in affect not create a center image. I guess I'm wrong, but I would like better clarification.

Matt, there's no directional "diffusion" other than by toeing the speakers in or out to various degrees. The data leaves the speaker coming straight out, not tilted to one side or the other. Also, of course, most speakers are designed to be used on either the left or right interchangeably.

I always felt I got slightly more accurate imaging when I turned the speakers upside down, but that was probably a result of having my ears more in-line with the tweeters...