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<blockquote data-quote="blue" data-source="post: 1732295" data-attributes="member: 562889">Hey FoxPro .... T/A is not just a &quot; lazy &quot; issue , it makes great sense.&nbsp; Time alignment is NOT supposed to replicate a concert at all ..... It is suppose to replicate the exact sound properties that were mixed in the recording studio. In the studio the engineer sits exactly between the pair of studio playback, mixing monitors. From here he has the power to move vocalists positioning in the recording any degree of left or right he wants to , or place the vocals exactly in stage center via equal amounts of left and right sliders. He also places EVERY recorded instrument in the soundfield from left to right according to where he , or the musicians want it to be. In other words , he is completely responsible for spacial clues in the recording. Once he is finished , the end result is EXACTLY what the artist intended , and what he hears from those studio monitors is what is intended for YOU to hear....... But , you will NOT hear it that way due to waaay less than ideal speaker placement in a car.Time alignment delays the signal to make your speakers sound as if they are placed equal distant apart with you centered between them. Placing you where the engineer was when he finalized the sound on the CD ...People who believe careful speaker placement will get you better results than T/A are simply wrong. Speaker placement is of the UTMOST importance , but can NEVER place you equal distance between the speakers in a car.&nbsp; Therefore proper T/A is NECESSARY for the ultimate in realistic soundstaging and imaging.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blue, post: 1732295, member: 562889"] Hey FoxPro .... T/A is not just a " lazy " issue , it makes great sense. [B]Time alignment is NOT supposed to replicate a concert at all ..... [/B] It is suppose to replicate the exact sound properties that were mixed in the recording studio. In the studio the engineer sits exactly between the pair of studio playback, mixing monitors. From here he has the power to move vocalists positioning in the recording any degree of left or right he wants to , or place the vocals exactly in stage center via equal amounts of left and right sliders. He also places EVERY recorded instrument in the soundfield from left to right according to where he , or the musicians want it to be. In other words , he is completely responsible for spacial clues in the recording. Once he is finished , the end result is EXACTLY what the artist intended , and what he hears from those studio monitors is what is intended for YOU to hear....... But , you will NOT hear it that way due to waaay less than ideal speaker placement in a car. Time alignment delays the signal to make your speakers sound as if they are placed equal distant apart with you centered between them. Placing you where the engineer was when he finalized the sound on the CD ... People who believe careful speaker placement will get you better results than T/A are simply wrong. Speaker placement is of the UTMOST importance , [B]but can NEVER place you equal distance between the speakers in a car.[/B] Therefore proper T/A is NECESSARY for the ultimate in realistic soundstaging and imaging. [/QUOTE]

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