Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker?

That's "over" not "overe."

Also, "still SOUND like magic." Jeeze....

the fundamental problem with any question like this is of course any one element of successful design can matter, but the specific impact of that element can only be felt only if all else is equal... design of something as complicated as a loudspeaker is highly multi-variate, so ’all else’ is never ever, ’equal’, far from it in fact ... so it ends up being an interesting theoretical discussion with little to no real world applicablity

'does the type of insulation matter in how an interconnect sounds'?

'will a different brand of capacitors in a linestage improve the sound'?

'do r2r dacs sound better than delta sigma ones?'

and so it goes, round and round...

Room treatments do not add to coherency.  Room treatments subtract.  The speaker must produce a time or phase coherent sound field in order to produce that astonishing three dimensional soundstage.  The reflections- both airborne and the mechanical interaction between the speakers and the floor (as well as to the amps and other components) though small they may be smear the sound.  The room treatments remove those reflections to restore coherency and detail as well as bring more clarity to the bass.  That is my experience.  

Good for you, but the topic was time and phase... so you are out of sync.

Past attempts at DSP were abysmal failures, but perhaps significant gains have been made in the past few years. Funny I still dont consider DSP a viable option which is probably not wise. Just dont like the idea of DSP at a fundamental level. 

So you were bit biased?

I phase and time align every concert venue I mix (hundreds overe decades) , and my home rig also. I never said phase and time don't matter, I simply was pointing out that live music with no sound reinforcement is never specifically adjusted for time and phase, and it still sounds great. Musicians hopefully play in sync and in tune, but not always perfectly and it can still like magic.

 

The signal from a person playing or singing is, by definition, time/phase aligned.
If there is no speaker reinforcement, then why are you there?

Little snarky there holmz...I was referring to the sound of multiple musicians playing the same music with space between them. I attend concerts I don’t mix, and ones I do mix I listen to unamplified sound from various areas during sound check including right in front of or on the stage. If you can’t understand my posts, why are you here?