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Of course they are

Posted by Todd B. (A) on November 25, 2007 at 17:43:41

In Reply to: And so is integration and so is overall tone and so is ... posted by Edp on November 21, 2007 at 14:26:44:

I agree that "almost any" typical speaker doesn't accurately recreate all those qualities. That's why I keep posting about the Europa, because it does them to a greater degree than I have heard typical speakers do.

As maui pointed out, if there were other pieces in the playback chain that skewed signal timing to the degree that multi-order crossovers do, audiophiles would consider those pieces to be unacceptable, if not broken. I don't know what were the technological- or knowledge-based shortcomings in the past that made 1st-order designs unworkable, but I'm not hearing any substantial problems in the Europa. On an absolute scale, they're a touch dark, and they could be more open sounding, but those issues are almost inconsequential in relation to what the speaker does right.

Even if you don't consider it to be very important for your speakers to play back in proper time, it stands to reason that as the resolution of a system increases, that lack of proper timing is going to become more apparent. At what point of resolution, then, and by what method, should the failing be addressed?

BTW, phase coherence is NOT time coherence.

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Edits: 11/25/07

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