@rooze asked, "How does running a swarm setup, with 4 subs, affect phase/time integration with the mains? Does it create twice or half the issue or remove it altogether?"
Briefly, a distributed multi-sub setup is quite flexible in positioning and phase. I have yet to have a customer fail to achieve a good integration with his mains. The relative uniformity of the low frequency sound field with a good distributed multisub system means that you aren’t "rolling the dice" when it comes to blending with your mains.
The minor differences in arrival time at the listening position are a much smaller fraction of a wavelength than what the ear can resolve at low frequencies. How uniformly the low frequencies decay in-room is of greater audible consequence. Speakers + room = a minimum phase system at low frequencies, which means the time-domain response tracks the frequency response. Fix one and you have fixed the other.
@kenjit wrote: "There is no such thing as swarm."
A the risk of stating the obvious, the guy who manufacturers the Swarm begs to differ.
Duke
yes, I’m that guy
Briefly, a distributed multi-sub setup is quite flexible in positioning and phase. I have yet to have a customer fail to achieve a good integration with his mains. The relative uniformity of the low frequency sound field with a good distributed multisub system means that you aren’t "rolling the dice" when it comes to blending with your mains.
The minor differences in arrival time at the listening position are a much smaller fraction of a wavelength than what the ear can resolve at low frequencies. How uniformly the low frequencies decay in-room is of greater audible consequence. Speakers + room = a minimum phase system at low frequencies, which means the time-domain response tracks the frequency response. Fix one and you have fixed the other.
@kenjit wrote: "There is no such thing as swarm."
A the risk of stating the obvious, the guy who manufacturers the Swarm begs to differ.
Duke
yes, I’m that guy