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<blockquote data-quote="keep_hope_alive" data-source="post: 7648039" data-attributes="member: 576029">that tells me that your wiring is mixed up for that driver.&nbsp; you are doing the right thing using your ears to fix your wiring issues - but good wiring methods can save that step.it doesn&#039;t change your phase issues due to your mixing of crossover slopes. with passive crossovers - the manufacturer handles any phase adjustments and polarity changes in the terminal labeling. with active, you need to understand how each adjustment changes driver phase, and how to account for that in your wiring.&nbsp; sometimes you must manually reverse polarity to realign acoustic phase relative to each driver.&nbsp;&nbsp; this is why processors have a phase adjustment - to make it easy without manually changing wiring.you won&#039;t hear the difference of relative acoustic phase between tweeter and woofer by listening for &quot;scattered sound&quot;.&nbsp; for that you must focus on how the speakers blend together - which your comments above (in conjunction with your crossover settings) tell me that is where your issues are.T/A won&#039;t fix your issues, T/A can&#039;t fix acoustic phase problems, but it can make things worse.&nbsp; once you have proper acoustic phase on all drivers, T/A will simply shift the center of your sound stage - left/right, up/down, close/far.&nbsp; you may also notice more accurate midbass as it becomes centered in the sound stage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keep_hope_alive, post: 7648039, member: 576029"] that tells me that your wiring is mixed up for that driver. you are doing the right thing using your ears to fix your wiring issues - but good wiring methods can save that step. it doesn't change your phase issues due to your mixing of crossover slopes. with passive crossovers - the manufacturer handles any phase adjustments and polarity changes in the terminal labeling. with active, you need to understand how each adjustment changes driver phase, and how to account for that in your wiring. sometimes you must manually reverse polarity to realign acoustic phase relative to each driver. this is why processors have a phase adjustment - to make it easy without manually changing wiring. you won't hear the difference of relative acoustic phase between tweeter and woofer by listening for "scattered sound". for that you must focus on how the speakers blend together - which your comments above (in conjunction with your crossover settings) tell me that is where your issues are. T/A won't fix your issues, T/A can't fix acoustic phase problems, but it can make things worse. once you have proper acoustic phase on all drivers, T/A will simply shift the center of your sound stage - left/right, up/down, close/far. you may also notice more accurate midbass as it becomes centered in the sound stage. [/QUOTE]

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