Alpine or JL Audio

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

off axis. what are you talking about??? off of what axis?

Off axis means that your ear is not in line (perfectly perpendicular) to the firing direction of the speaker cone. Depending on the speaker, this can make a huge difference in the way the sound is perceived and processed by your brain.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

off axis. what are you talking about??? off of what axis? are you trying to say something about time alignment? which is the biggest joke in car stereos EVER?
the only reason it would sound weird is because it's ment to be stereo and your only sending it one side of the music.

all you do is set your amp up to take a mono signal instead of stereo. that is if you want to compare them this way. which is a bad way imo but ya.

You seem kind of mad about all this.

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

just put a pair of alpine on the right side and the jl set on the other.

 

[Torgus 10+ year member]

how is running only one side make it off axis??? either they are positioned correctly or not...

 

[Notwerk 10+ year member]

off axis. what are you talking about??? off of what axis? are you trying to say something about time alignment? which is the biggest joke in car stereos EVER?
the only reason it would sound weird is because it's ment to be stereo and your only sending it one side of the music.

all you do is set your amp up to take a mono signal instead of stereo. that is if you want to compare them this way. which is a bad way imo but ya.

No, you're completely wrong about this. He's right. If you're sitting on the driver's side, as is expected, and you have a JL on the driver's side (off axis because it's far closer to you and pointing in a different direction relative to your body) and an Alpine on the other side (on axis relative to your position in the driver's side), you're comparing apples to oranges.

Time alignment wouldn't compensate for this at all, though there's nothing inherently wrong with time alignment other than the fact that while it may make one side of the car sound better, it usually comes at the expense of the other side of the car. In competitions were ratings are given from two positions in the car (driver and passenger), it's not very useful. In competitions where scores are tallied from one side, say the driver's side, it can help. But it still won't correct for the axis of the speaker. Only the time at which the sound arrives at your ears (path length).

I don't know why you would think he's talking about time alignment. That's completely different and he never mentioned it. He's talking strictly about the effect the speaker position, relative to where you're seated in the car, would have on the sound of the speaker.