Haha funny shit! BTW there are 3 pics! HA! lol What would be the diffenece between this and a bigger single driver? ....we will see! Why vertical arrays work: Depending on the frequency our ears have a somewhat hard time distinguishing a sound source on the vertical plane. Below 1khz our ears can't really detect the elevation of the sound, but above 1khz they may start to pick up some slight elevation cues from shadows & reflections caused by the torso. The major indicator for elevation comes around 3khz+ by the outer ear (pinna). Knowing this, people have been able to exploit it, and use vertical arrays with a perceived single sound source. It's also why it's possible to have mid drivers low in the kicks, tweets up high, and still maintain a high coherent stage height. On the azimuth plane (horizontally sort of) we rely on time arrival differences between the ears. If a sound arrives to the left ear first, and to the right ear 2 Milli-seconds later (2ms is some arbitrary number), then the brain can deduct that the sound source is to our left, and that amount of delay will dictate how far over to the left or right the sound is coming from. In an array there is a slight difference in path lengths between each speaker, in a vertical array the difference can be null, but in a horizontal array it may make multiple sound sources distinguishable. *The bold I'm speculating. I also know that in any type of array, comb-filtering can increase loudness and dispersion across the main axis. In a vertical array it may be null, but in a horizontal array the increase horizontally could weaken staging. I'm sure there are other aspects that come into play like interference, but I don't know much about beyond what I've already stated. In any event, I'd definitely finish the pods, and try them out.
