Re: Danley SM80 and others shootout Monday January 14 at Danley in Gainesville, GA.
Yes they should be tightpacked for least interference-side to side.
Yes the driver is in the middle of the box-in the middle of the horn.
Sure you could use the monitor as mains. you could stand it up on end-so it would sit flat. The coverage is the same anyway you turn it. There are 2 NL4 jacks inside each handle-so it doesn't matter which handle goes down.
However the porting is through the handles-so with one handle blocked off the low freq tuning will change a bit.
Yes you could use two of the cabinets in a side by side (one upside down) for wider coverage. But you will not be able to get the drivers as close as with regular SM80 version. Getting drivers close together is the key to making a cabinet arrayable.
I would have to take one apart and see about room to mount a pole cup-but my gut feeling is telling me this was a consideration in the overall layout-I just don't remember-it has been a little while since we went through that phase.
