Speaker alignment in a arcade cabinet

[juksu]

Hi. I'm going to make (some day) a mame cabinet. What is your opinion where I should put the speakers and where to align them.
Normally everyone puts the speakers in the top of the cabin so they are aligned down. But in that way the treble will suffer (you can't hear it very good).

If you make the cabins umm.. "top part" slimmer you could put the speakers in front of the cabin and align to the listeners. The down side is that you can hear the sound coming top of the screen and if you are not center of the speakers, the stereo sound isn't perfect.

My own idea is to put speakers top of the cabin and align them to the front glass. Treble will suffer a bit but the sound would seem to come from the screen.

What do you think and do you have ideas?

[gryhnd]

My only comment is that the vast majority of the old games don't have hi-fidelity sound, so it's not much of an issue. Just look at the cr@p speakers that were in most of the original cabs.

[drventure]

Hehe. I put mine on the end of gooseneck lamps in glass, so I can aim em whereever I need 

Not sure that'd look right in a traditional cabinet though!