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Originally Posted by tima
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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A bit difficult to operate in an environment that quickly derogatories you for just asking simple questions that may suggest some inconsistency in the logic of WA claims. I will just say that since WA loudspeakers are not time/phase coherent at any point after the XO (and therefore, its “timing” attributes are distorted), drivers alignment of distances from the listener can not correct it. Think about it in visual terms; if you input a square into a time/phase coherent speaker, like the Vandersteen, at the right distance from the listener, you will see it again as a square. On a none time/phase coherent speaker that square will come out after the XO as a triangle (or whatever, just not a square), and will never be seen again as a square, regardless of your driver alignment and listening distance.