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<blockquote data-quote="Carl Klinkenborg" data-source="post: 214020" data-attributes="member: 12770">Hi All,I have been searching to no avail for anecdotal information or preferably white papers regarding the implications for the reproduction of transient events (lets imagine a simple &#039;click&#039; track for now) in multiple-driver speaker systems such as PA line arrays and tall domestic column-style speakers.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t take too much imagination to picture the wildly differing path lengths to the listener in such speaker systems, but even if phase, amplitude, and frequency shading are used alone or in conjunction, a solution could only be approximated for one listening position.&nbsp; I am fairly clear on the rules governing the spacing of drivers to achieve friendly summing (up to a given frequency limit), however the timing of the arrivals to the ear seem to me to be an uncorrectable artefact in general terms, suggesting that a single driver speaker should always have a superior transient response compared with a plurality of sources, other things being equal.&nbsp; Am I missing something here or is it simply that Dr. Haas is hard at work in the spectacular sound processing unit which is our brains?&nbsp; Your comments please.Stay safe, Carl.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carl Klinkenborg, post: 214020, member: 12770"] Hi All, I have been searching to no avail for anecdotal information or preferably white papers regarding the implications for the reproduction of transient events (lets imagine a simple 'click' track for now) in multiple-driver speaker systems such as PA line arrays and tall domestic column-style speakers. It doesn't take too much imagination to picture the wildly differing path lengths to the listener in such speaker systems, but even if phase, amplitude, and frequency shading are used alone or in conjunction, a solution could only be approximated for one listening position. I am fairly clear on the rules governing the spacing of drivers to achieve friendly summing (up to a given frequency limit), however the timing of the arrivals to the ear seem to me to be an uncorrectable artefact in general terms, suggesting that a single driver speaker should always have a superior transient response compared with a plurality of sources, other things being equal. Am I missing something here or is it simply that Dr. Haas is hard at work in the spectacular sound processing unit which is our brains? Your comments please. Stay safe, Carl. [/QUOTE]

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