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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7506921" data-attributes="member: 629735">I still disagree. Let&#039;s start with time alignment of your front stage with the subwoofer (assume, all front stage is already time aligned). I have spent a while looking for the correct music track with the correct midbass notes to try time alignment for the subwoofer. After spending some time trying to time align the subwoofer with the front stage, I would say yes, it can make a barely audible difference. However, it&#039;s not a night and day difference. Once the front stage is time aligned with the subwoofer, the subwoofer is fully in phase with the front stage and certain bass notes will sound fuller. But like I said, it&#039;s not night and day, and you need to listen for the right things on the right track to be able to detect the difference between TA and no TA. So based on this experience, I certainly prefer to time align the subwoofer with the front stage now, but it&#039;s not like my sub sounded bad without TA to begin with..The speakers that benefit most from time alignment are those that play up to the upper midrange. This is because those are the frequencies where time differences are responsible for your brain deciding whether the sound comes from right or left. For your tweeters, if they don&#039;t play into upper midrange, TA may be useful to make your tweeter be in phase with other speakers. But when the tweeters are not time aligned with each other, it&#039;s not like they&#039;re going to screw up your imaging. Now, let&#039;s not stray away from the original questions. The OP needs to know how to place cymbals correctly in the sound stage. If the op tries to time align tweeters with each other, likely, this will not fix this issue. Moreover, since he is running passive, woofers are not time aligned with each other any more (if they were to begin with), and this will cause much bigger imaging problems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zako, post: 7506921, member: 629735"] I still disagree. Let's start with time alignment of your front stage with the subwoofer (assume, all front stage is already time aligned). I have spent a while looking for the correct music track with the correct midbass notes to try time alignment for the subwoofer. After spending some time trying to time align the subwoofer with the front stage, I would say yes, it can make a barely audible difference. However, it's not a night and day difference. Once the front stage is time aligned with the subwoofer, the subwoofer is fully in phase with the front stage and certain bass notes will sound fuller. But like I said, it's not night and day, and you need to listen for the right things on the right track to be able to detect the difference between TA and no TA. So based on this experience, I certainly prefer to time align the subwoofer with the front stage now, but it's not like my sub sounded bad without TA to begin with.. The speakers that benefit most from time alignment are those that play up to the upper midrange. This is because those are the frequencies where time differences are responsible for your brain deciding whether the sound comes from right or left. For your tweeters, if they don't play into upper midrange, TA may be useful to make your tweeter be in phase with other speakers. But when the tweeters are not time aligned with each other, it's not like they're going to screw up your imaging. Now, let's not stray away from the original questions. The OP needs to know how to place cymbals correctly in the sound stage. If the op tries to time align tweeters with each other, likely, this will not fix this issue. Moreover, since he is running passive, woofers are not time aligned with each other any more (if they were to begin with), and this will cause much bigger imaging problems. [/QUOTE]

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