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

it does seem that snippy and snarky are in fashion, unfortunately - i fall into the rut occasionally as well

as for time alignment allowing the brain to work less hard, maybe so, dunno, but while i would agree that vandy's are very relaxing to listen to, my recollection is that thiels are less so, in fact they are quite dynamic and can get edgy, so not sure time alignment is behind their characters (more likely the metallic tweeter used in thiels)... other speakers are lovely and relaxing - harbeths, spendor classics, grahams... those are not time aligned

actually the major difference is the Jim T objective to be flat at the listening position vs at 1m for Richard V. One can debate the merits of both. Until recently i owned both and while i prefer the Vandy, I can understand the allure of increased treble energy inherent in the JT approach.

For those interested , no violin in flat at both 1m and 3 m...... of course if your reference is 32 track studio stuff, keep chasing your tail....

Most of Thiel's speakers have demonstrated to me how a single aspect which I think is incorrect can sour the entire speaker and the listening experience. I could never get past the aggressive/forward quality of the treble. To me JT efforts to achieve time/phase alightment did so at tremendous expense. Check out the complexity of many of his crossover designs. 

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?

I am not always the model of all things Buddhist, which is also why I asked the question ending in the question mark.

As there no way to adjust non sound reinforced music it also is hard not to be snarky. The only thing that really needs adjustment anyhow are the speakers. The rest is time-n-phase correct.

Appolgies for the tone, in any case.

@audition__audio , That different time correct loudspeakers have different tonal balances suggest that your complaint might be the result of something other than time correctness.

Other than the Thiel CS 5 and 5i, I don’t think the other Thiel models cross-overs are that much more extrodinarily complex than some others.

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion and indeed many other’s share it too, the Thiel’s have also been reviewed by others as having something of the opposite impresson. They tend to measure relatively flat.