Yes and no. (I have Khorns too, but I've adjusted the mid and tweeter to be physically time aligned... there's still a huge delay in the bass driver's positioning).
If you measure the room response, then the measurement will "see" the time delay between drivers, and attempt to fix the impulse response to become more like a single impulse. To do this it will adjust phase across the frequency range to some extent. But in the crossover regions, there's really nothing that can be done to fix the underlying time delay. There's only a single signal coming out the Squeezebox and into the loudspeaker; in the speaker it gets passed to the various drivers, and then travels through air to the listening position. DRC of the overall signal means that at the measured position, the wavefronts will all more or less line up. But that's only in the aggregate, for that one position. To really fix time delays you'd need three analog outputs from Squeezebox -- one for each driver -- and then three amplifiers per channel; and a digital crossover filter that separates the various frequency ranges and adjusts time delay for each. Since Squeezebox only has stereo analog output, there's really no way to do this with current hardware. I'm hopeful that SlimServer can do this, eventually; maybe with a multichannel SqueezeSlave into a multichannel sound card, instead of the Slim playback hardware; or hopefully with some Slim hardware built for 6- or more channels of analog out. But not yet. Meanwhile running DRC on a multi-way speaker does give a worthwhile improvement, even where there's a big time misalignment between the drivers. It's just not the theoretical best possible approach :-) -- inguz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26005 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
