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<blockquote data-quote="Notwerk" data-source="post: 2429584" data-attributes="member: 553427">No, you&#039;re completely wrong about this. He&#039;s right. If you&#039;re sitting on the driver&#039;s side, as is expected, and you have a JL on the driver&#039;s side (off axis because it&#039;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&#039;s side), you&#039;re comparing apples to oranges.Time alignment wouldn&#039;t compensate for this at all, though there&#039;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&#039;s not very useful. In competitions where scores are tallied from one side, say the driver&#039;s side, it can help. But it still won&#039;t correct for the axis of the speaker. Only the time at which the sound arrives at your ears (path length).I don&#039;t know why you would think he&#039;s talking about time alignment. That&#039;s completely different and he never mentioned it. He&#039;s talking strictly about the effect the speaker position, relative to where you&#039;re seated in the car, would have on the sound of the speaker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Notwerk, post: 2429584, member: 553427"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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