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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Driver Alignment, and Where to Draw the Line

Post Subject: The deaf skeptics, take note.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/4/2010

I have been pitching about the superior importance of time alignment for years. It is not that I violently insist that people have their channels time-alignment. We kind of free people and everyone do whatever they want. Still, I exercise for years my liberty and do not take serious audio comment and audio opinions from the people who have channels misalignment and who do not see it as problem. I understand that most audio people can’t understand the heard and they instead of recognizing and interpreting difference use “somebody else opinions”. There are some opinions out there that time-alignment is kind of important. If a car mechanic claims the in your small 6 cylinder engine the ignition alignment is important then no one argue with him. However, when we bring to the same mechanic a large 12 cylinder bus of cargo track then we do not feel that larger engine do not need comply with ignition-alignment. Why in such case the Morons feel that if they go for large horns then the rules of time-alignment are not applicable anymore? Because it is difficult to do or because some audio-idiots so hate Romy that Cat that they scare to admit to themselves that Macondo configuration is the ONLY one available sane configuration to build multichannel horns? Well, I let the audio- idiots to treat their psychological problems with whoever is interested in them and will bring the recent case for illustration.

I do not have time misaligned system for a while and I even forgot how it might be. Moving to the new room I tossed the channels as they were, aligning the drivers very rudimentary, by eyes. The last might I took my RTA and aligned the drivers properly. The Macondo right the way went from the former anarchy sound to the sound that I am cultivate. It is very hard to explain what difference the perfect alignment made. I mean, it is not hard because it is difficult but hard because there are TOO MANY CHARACTERISTICS OF SOUND that “magically” improved with time alignment and make the sound to be as it shall be. Those characteristics of sound did not even get improved – they just do not exist in time-misaligned configuration.

Anyhow, I will not continue it as but I would extend to the Morons who listen the time-misaligned horns one more opportunity to pay attention to the subject of driver’s time-alignment. If your channels, particularly above 200Hz, are time-misaligned then your playback sounds like shit. That is juts very simple as is. The sad part is that you would never knew how much more complexity and more interest in Sound you would realize if you had your drivers time-aligned.

Romy The Cat

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