That places the Mid center at around 40" above the floor. If a 2" tweeter with a 3-1/2" face plate wants to be centered at seated ear height roughly 45" high, then place a 6" mid as close to that as possible. how far would/should one place the mid from the floor to avoid floor-bounce? I'll assume an 8' tall ceiling for this exercise. Ok, so if we had an ideal situation, with a 3-way floor-stander and a low enough W-M crossover. Obviously, the ideal is not to have it, but many, even quite critical listeners, appear to be able to live with it. Is floor-bounce a big deal? It's not ideal, that's for sure, but what with our falling hearing acuity in the LF, coupled with the fact that our hearing primarily 'keys off the peaks' and that the room response generally dominates low down anyway -well, circumstance dependent, but in many cases, it's just one of a factor of junk in the LF that, at least to a point, we listen around, as it were, and many will probably only notice a dulled fundamental if they're particularly focused on it. No reflection on them, although they would probably do themselves and their enjoyment a big favour if they tried to learn. As that changed, and off-the-shelf became the norm, a lot of that technical knowledge dwindled, and I think I can safely promise you this: in the UK at least, the technical knowledge of most commercial hi-fi buyers is lousy at best. Once upon a time, many, if not most buyers were quite technically savvy, not least because in many cases they actually had to design and build the gear themselves. A significant amount (arguably the majority) of commercial hi-fi ran off into rampant subjectivism at some point in the 1980s, and technical performance became a side-issue from the end-user's POV. And that's assuming the desired baffle arrangements actually allow you to position the woofer at xyz distance from the deck, which is not always the case. Speaking purely in the abstract, aesthetics being what they are, what you might consider as having little impact, some others might regard as ugly. Really? I wouldn't be so sure about that, re the aesthetics.
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