In Reply to: POLL: How many of you use(or would prefer to use) "time-coincident" speakers? posted by genungo on September 4, 2014 at 08:36:45:
I'm coming to think that there's more than one way to skin the speaker design cat and one particular factor (time coherence, for example) doesn't tell you the whole story. That said, I find the time-coherence-as-holy-grail idea very appealing because of all the sonic benefits that "should" theoretically accrue as a result. Yet, I didn't keep the pair of Green Mountain Audio Rio's that I bought a few years ago because they just didn't do it for me the way I thought they would. (I hasten to add that Roy Johnson of GMA is a heck of a good guy who sincerely believes in his approach to speaker design, and that the Rio has since been upgraded to the "Chroma" which has a revised crossover design, so maybe I'd react differently now...)
Personally, I've found speaker happiness with my Reference 3A Dulcets and, since upgrading, De Capo BE's. Only a single capacitor on the tweet and the main driver driven directly by the amp, along with a slanted baffle and offset tweeter to facilitate better time alignment. I don't think Reference 3A claims that their designs are completely time coherent, but they image like crazy and sound really coherent. Go figure.
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- RE: POLL: How many of you use(or would prefer to use) "time-coincident" speakers? - rebbi 18:02:07 09/04/14 (6)
- RE: POLL: How many of you use(or would prefer to use) "time-coincident" speakers? - RoyJ 20:21:18 05/29/15 (4)
- Very helpful info, thanks - genungo 16:14:11 05/30/15 (1)
- RE: Very helpful info, thanks - RoyJ 18:12:53 05/30/15 (0)
- RE: POLL: How many of you use(or would prefer to use) "time-coincident" speakers? - SgreenP@MSN.com 14:36:36 05/30/15 (1)
- good setup! - RoyJ 18:22:43 05/30/15 (0)
- Nice... - genungo 07:22:09 09/05/14 (0)