Now time domain should relate to a wide band response. If for rxemple you have a two ways, the two point of emissions should arrive at the ears at the same time, so they are in phase and time correct. But it’s important to consider the behavior of the cross-over (inductive and capacitive parts. 6db slopes allowing for a better time domain behavior (less phase rotations) than 12 or 18 db slopes.
The position of the tweeter and woofer have to be such that cross-over frequency and behavior are taken in account. Introducing a square wave and measuring it through a microphone (able to reproduce it) can help to finalize the position of the tweeter. The ear is very sensible to time domain by the way
@armagedon36 ^agree^
We could break it down into before and after…
- With “before” being the launching of the acoustic field off of the transducer, which you are mentioning is best when it is faithful to the input signal (e.g. square wave).
- and the “after” being any resonance or ringing after the signal should have ended.
But… the OP at one point was talking more about cabinet ringing after the fact, and having a death grip on the driver with aa QTS=0 and did not seem to care about the “before” part.
At least in chronological order, worrying about what happens later, is a bit
“after the fact”… as you implicitly pointed out.
It is probably best to start off right, and not have it go all down the sewer with cabinet ringing and resonances later. (IMO)
But we do not know what the OP was thinking as they went silent pretty quickly.