A Question About Time Alignment

First, if you intend to "pick up" a pair of any Wilson speakers....bring a crane!

Second, while the provability of "time alignment" claims for speakers has been argued since the launch of Dahlquist DQ10s, the fallacy in your reasoning is this...the arrival time cues in a recording are baked into the stereo microphone pickup of the event.  The speaker's job is to restore them to your perception in your room without altering them.  That's High Fidelity 101.  Which is also why assessing playback fidelity with multitrack recordings is a waste of time.  Only "live to 2 track" unamplified, unprocessed recordings, whether classical, jazz, or folk or any subgenre of acoustically produced music is of actual use.  Once accuracy is found acceptible, bring on your favorite commecially recorded selections, knowing you are hearing them as they are.  

I remain unconvinced. 

Monopulse Loudspeakers here in the UK have made this time alignment issue their main selling point for decades.

The designer Allan Hendry has been stating that impulse precision is hard wired into our evolution for survival itself and thus it’s importance cannot be overstated.

Everytime I’ve listened to Monopulse speakers they did seem to be easy on the ear, very listenable for long durations. That led me to also wonder whether they are onto something.

If so, does that mean most others aren’t?

http://www.monopulse.co.uk/

 

Monopulse Loudspeakers here in the UK have made this time alignment issue their main selling point for decades.

The designer Allan Hendry has been stating that impulse precision is hard wired into our evolution for survival itself and thus it’s importance cannot be overstated.

Everytime I’ve listened to Monopulse speakers they did seem to be easy on the ear, very listenable for long durations. That led me to also wonder whether they are onto something.

If so, does that mean most others aren’t?

http://www.monopulse.co.uk/

Technically having a good impulse response means having higher fidelity.

There many speakers that do it, but it is easier to have speakers that may not be so good.

Time alignment: a simpler illustration. The acoustic centers of a cone midrange and a dome tweeter when both are mounted in the same plane (e.g., on a flat front of a speaker) will not be in the same plane. The tweeter would typically be ahead of the cone speaker. Thus even if the two speakers are in electrical phase the harmonics from the tweeter will arrive slightly ahead of the lower frequencies of a cone speaker whose acoustic center is near the apex of the cone which could be a couple inches behind the plane if both components are mounted on the same plane.