@obelisk- "Some speaker designers used to put the tweeters physically behind the plane of the woofer to try and accomodate the slower response of the woofer." No- The physical time alignment, in multi-driver systems, has nothing to do with the relative speed of the drivers. Rather: to get the acoustic centers(actual sound source/voice coil) of the drivers, in the same plane/in phase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker_time_alignment
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@eric- Certainly, much of what’s causing phase/freq anomalies, etc, in a speaker system, can be corrected with DSP. ie: https://www.audioxpress.com/article/a-loudspeaker-that-can-play-square-waves Far as individual drivers(or- identical multiples) and reproducing square waves; my thoughts on correction, would be more along the line of what Infinity and Genesis(et al) pursued, with their servo-contolled stuff: https://www.psaudio.com/pauls-posts/lightning-fast/ Personally; I’ve always trusted in a high damping factor(around 1K, out to 1kHz, usually), SS amp and long Xmax, in a TL, for bottom. Lately; I’ve added DSP, to those. |
How accurately a speaker system/driver follows a waveform. ie: Fast rise-time / square wave tracing, without ring, overshoot / etc. https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/square-wave-response/ |