Quoted from Yelobird:Yes, I agree it upset me that the position Stern put the speaker hole in does not allow for absolutely perfect left/right alignment
I agree, it does seem strange. I'm not sure if they were hoping for more speaker separation or what, but I think the bigger issue is the honeycomb placement.
I have been messing with these panels a lot. If I had my way they would have had an extra short honeycomb column on the outer side of the honeycomb patters and centered them on each side (between the display edge and the speaker panel edge).
Quoted from J85M:Speaker itself isn't even centre, in which case yelobird managed to replicate Sterns factory look down to every detail
Seems like a simple fix though if someone was really that bothered, pretty sure the alignment/mounting could be changed on the back if someone's OCD pushed them that far, either way yelobird speaker mod is superb!
Now if only someone was close to creating SLE cabinet art
As for simply changing the speaker alignment....you couldn't really change it the direction it would need to go. If you needed the speaker to go AWAY from the display....theoretically you could add washers / spacers and longer screws to hold the display in. Even this would have it's limit as the speaker plates mounting slots (and the speaker plate width) would only allow you to shift the speaker plate outward so far,...BUT the speaker would actually have to go TOWARD the display to be centered with the honeycomb pattern more...and that's pretty much impossible without making a replacement speaker plate with the speaker hole in a different location.
I'm not sure how the speaker in the super LE is, but the standard Stern speaker can only have it's speaker hole moved over a small bit because of their wonky "we will save $.05 by using only 2 mounting points per speaker and positioning the speaker in a diamond position instead of the normal "squared up" position".
With that being said, the speakers actually ARE centered between the edge of the display and the outer edge of the speaker panel....the thing is the honeycomb patters is what is not centered. When you see the speakers lit up (like NeilMcRae's picture above) you can see the lit rings do look centered on the panel....just not centered with the speaker honeycombs. I'm sure it's just a case of them not putting much though into it when designing the speaker panels for SPIKE 2. Having said that, please don't change anything Stern, please don't change anything Stern, please don't change anything Stern, please don't change anything Stern. Spike 2 Speaker Light Kits are about to be released from SpeakerLightKits.com and I don't want SPIKE 2.X or SPIKE 3 (or at least any speaker panel changes) any time soon.
Doug (SpeakerLightKits.com)