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https://www.tdpri.com/threads/mounting-a-speaker-to-a-baffle-question.342921/
If your speakers are slightly offset, then the sound will vary a lot when you move up or down, and slightly when you move from side to side. In a gig situation (remember those!) that will have some impact on what your punters here, but much less than in a horizontal cab.
But there is no rule about where you need to put your ears to make the cab sound “best”, the physics only really tells you what will make the sound different.
A horizontal cab is really the wrong way to do it, as it has a narrow vertical beam, so the sound falls off rapidly (and changes tone) as you move to one side of the cab - whereas a vertical cab has a flatter horizontal beam, which gives better dispersion in the room and a more consistent sound as you move from side to side.
It is a bit counterintuitive since it looks like a horizontal cab should spread the sound horizontally, but it really is the other way round! It seems to be quite difficult to convince most guitarists of this though... but vertical cabs are at last becoming a bit more popular now.
The placement of the speakers on the baffle shouldn’t make much difference to the sound of the cab - guitar cabs usually aren’t properly designed from an audio physics point of view at all. As long as the speakers are in a vertical line you’ll get the best horizontal dispersion, so I wouldn’t go to any trouble to make a new baffle.
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