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Is there is device I can buy to time align my speakers?

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  • 6 months ago
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    Technically, yes,

    but it would be awfully expensive 

    and would provide very little benefit, if any at all.    

                

    You would need multiple digital delay units 

    (one channel for each driver in your system)  

    and a way to filter frequencies for each of those channels. 

    Then, each of the resultant signals would have to be amplified separately 

    and fed directly to each driver.  

             

    Some people claim to be able to hear a difference between 

    time-aligned wavefronts and those that are not,    

    but I believe that what they are really hearing is tonal differences, 

    not anything related to one part of the overall signal 

    arriving sooner or later than any other.    

             

    It's your money and you can waste it as you see fit, 

    but I would rather spend My money to upgrade the speakers 

    to something more tonally accurate than to something that was time-aligned.    

  • 6 months ago

    Is 1 speaker 2000 feet away and the other 100 ft away from you?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    what do ytou mean "time align"?

    in a stereo audio, the right and the left signals are not the same.... they were recorded with two microphones at different points.

  • keerok
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    Time align? Same wire gauge between left and right? I'm not sure if length is an issue. I've wired a lot speakers in different venues with vast differences between left and right with no untoward effects. What's more concerning is the thickness of the wires. Then again some wires may have been pulled too much and are frayed inside which isn't visible from the outside. That's why I keep changing wires every so often for my mobile sound system.

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  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    check to see if the wiring is the same length. if it's already the same length, then that's weird

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