This topic comes up every few months. Designing for phase coherence may be intellectually gratifying, but here are my questions for the Phase Coherence Uber Alles crowd.
1. What does time coherence actually sound like? How could you tell a time coherent design from a non-coherent one without
looking at the measurements? Why does almost every online list of "coherent" models include some that are not?
2. If all time coherent speakers are correct, then why do they sound so different from one another?
3. If this characteristic is so important, then why do only a few companies embrace it? and why aren't those companies dominating the marketplace?
4. What about OTHER factors such as distortion, wave interference, off-axis lobing, compression etc.!? Wouldn't these have much more influence over the quality of sound?
5. If this approach is the One True Way to superior sound, then why do people vote us Best Sound At Show?
1. What does time coherence actually sound like? How could you tell a time coherent design from a non-coherent one without
looking at the measurements? Why does almost every online list of "coherent" models include some that are not?
2. If all time coherent speakers are correct, then why do they sound so different from one another?
3. If this characteristic is so important, then why do only a few companies embrace it? and why aren't those companies dominating the marketplace?
4. What about OTHER factors such as distortion, wave interference, off-axis lobing, compression etc.!? Wouldn't these have much more influence over the quality of sound?
5. If this approach is the One True Way to superior sound, then why do people vote us Best Sound At Show?