Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7505946" data-attributes="member: 629735"><p>I think you have not read my argument above. The argument is that TA is not that important for speakers that play into high frequencies. Human ear cannot detect that. Frequency has LOT to do in the car when you do time alignment. Unless you run active front stage or coaxial speakers, there is NO WAY to time align ALL FOUR speakers in a 2-way front stage. So you have to decide, do you align the right and left tweeters with each other or do you align the right and left woofers with each other? Which one do you prefer to do? My argument is that time alignment is most useful in the frequencies played by the mid woofers, so midwoofers should be time aligned with each other, not tweeters! Of course it would help a lot if your woofers are able to play into upper midrange before the tweeters kick in to remove any ambiguity. (this runs contrary to a lot of people wanting to play their tweeters as low as possible. when you do this, imaging is screwed unless tweeter and woofer are mounted next to each other) Aligning the tweeters with each other is a waste in passive setup&nbsp; because time differences in high frequencies are not used by human brain to localize sound, while time alignment of woofers will be screwed up. If you want more detailed account, head to Hybrid Audio web site and read the manual of Hybrid Audio Imagines speakers, it&#039;s explained there.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="zako, post: 7505946, member: 629735"] I think you have not read my argument above. The argument is that TA is not that important for speakers that play into high frequencies. Human ear cannot detect that. Frequency has LOT to do in the car when you do time alignment. Unless you run active front stage or coaxial speakers, there is NO WAY to time align ALL FOUR speakers in a 2-way front stage. So you have to decide, do you align the right and left tweeters with each other or do you align the right and left woofers with each other? Which one do you prefer to do? My argument is that time alignment is most useful in the frequencies played by the mid woofers, so midwoofers should be time aligned with each other, not tweeters! Of course it would help a lot if your woofers are able to play into upper midrange before the tweeters kick in to remove any ambiguity. (this runs contrary to a lot of people wanting to play their tweeters as low as possible. when you do this, imaging is screwed unless tweeter and woofer are mounted next to each other) Aligning the tweeters with each other is a waste in passive setup because time differences in high frequencies are not used by human brain to localize sound, while time alignment of woofers will be screwed up. If you want more detailed account, head to Hybrid Audio web site and read the manual of Hybrid Audio Imagines speakers, it's explained there. [/QUOTE]

Verification