Dave Wilson: "The placement of the drivers relative to each other affects the synchronicity of the alignment of the leading edge of the transient."
I think he is talking about the timing of the arrival of the 'signal' at the ears. Suppose the first beat of a measure includes notes from a double bass, horn, and clarinet - a range of frequencies coming from multiple drivers. The goal is the syncronous arrival of those notes at the ear.
In a sense we're talking about transit time; humans can detect microsecond differences in time arrival, particularly of higher frequency notes. The out of synch arrival of the notes from those instruments yields smudge while being in-sync yields clarity. The increasingly fine adjustments of Wilson drivers improved across their development. Setup allows adjustment in support of synchronicity to the level of a few microseconds.
At least that's my rudimentary understanding of time synchronicity.
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