Does Time alignment and Phase coherency make for a better loudspeaker?

The human ear brain processing can differentiate between the initial primary sound and the reflected sounds so long as there is enough time between those sounds. Something that microphones are challenged to do.

So true. I once challenged a dipole mic, which sound came first? Said it could go either way. The condenser mic would only say, "No." The omni of course gave a much longer answer, "Yes." Tried a tube mic, pretended at first not to hear me then started glowing red hot. So I gave up, and haven't challenged one since.

One on a very long list of things that make a better loudspeaker. The ones I have now are light years better than the previous ones, even though they were beautifully and conspicuously time-aligned and the better ones equally obviously are not.