Where should VST2 plugins be located?

Thanks for the help Ulf and Derek.

I’ve copied the two .dlls, one for Aria Player and one for the EWQL Play into the folder Ulf listed.
I can find the whitelist.txt file, which I had previously edited to include the two names and GUID numbers.
I can only find one defaults.xml file with the long list of GUID numbers – I’ve added two lines, copied two existing lines and simply copied/pasted the GUID numbers for these two VST2 plugins into those lines. They both end in 1.

When I run Dorico I still only see the original VST3 plugins which installed with Dorico and don’t see these two additional ones.

What am I missing?

I do find a “Vst2xPlugin Blacklist VSTAudioEngine.xml” which specifically lists the directory that Ulf told me to copy the VST2 dll files into. In my experience, anything called “blacklist” is telling something/somebody not to do something. Is this file blocking my installation’s ability to find the two dll files I want to use?