Mapman, I see, then my horns are very laid back using your definition. IMHO this has everything to do with how speakers are place in the room and very little to do with the type of speaker. Don't let comments like those from Unsound dissuade you. You may not end up liking them but with 10s or 100s of thousands of us loving them they must have something to offer.
Rleff, Time align means that the sound waves from the different drivers arrive at your ear at the same time. Imagine a whack on a drum that was partially produced by the woofer and partially produced by the mid range and just to exaggerate imagine that the woofer is sitting 100 feet behind the midrange. You would hear the higher frequency part of the whack and then about a tenth of a second later hear the low frequency part of it. That applies to all speaker systems with more than one driver but it is exacerbated with a bass horn since they are so long.
In order to physically align my drivers the mid-tweet horns would have to be 16 feet behind the mouth of the woofer. I choose to digitally delay the mid-tweets instead of moving them.
Unsound, I guess that's why there are different types of speakers. I've never heard a Thiel I wanted to listen to for more than a few minutes. I've never heard the upper level Vandersteens but the 3A sounds to me to the slowest speaker in the world. I end up leaning forward trying to get to the music. Others say they sound wonderful. Go figure.
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Rleff, Time align means that the sound waves from the different drivers arrive at your ear at the same time. Imagine a whack on a drum that was partially produced by the woofer and partially produced by the mid range and just to exaggerate imagine that the woofer is sitting 100 feet behind the midrange. You would hear the higher frequency part of the whack and then about a tenth of a second later hear the low frequency part of it. That applies to all speaker systems with more than one driver but it is exacerbated with a bass horn since they are so long.
In order to physically align my drivers the mid-tweet horns would have to be 16 feet behind the mouth of the woofer. I choose to digitally delay the mid-tweets instead of moving them.
Unsound, I guess that's why there are different types of speakers. I've never heard a Thiel I wanted to listen to for more than a few minutes. I've never heard the upper level Vandersteens but the 3A sounds to me to the slowest speaker in the world. I end up leaning forward trying to get to the music. Others say they sound wonderful. Go figure.
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