Popular Post ray-dude Posted February 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2023 Chris, here is a process that I've always found very informative and rewarding. Take mono pink noise and play it through your front speakers. When you're listening from the point where things are phase aligned, you'll hear a dot come into focus. The more phase aligned you are, the sharper the dot. Helps to have a buddy moving one speaker in order for the dot to center at your listening position (it can be left or right, or up or down from the listening position....if you move your head around, you will find it) The more diffuse the dot, more room reflections or driver alignment you need to do (basically smearing the dot) Once you have it dialed in, invert positive and negative on one of your speaker. The dot will become a quiet spot. You'll be able to hear the absence of noise better than the loudness of noise, so you can do another line of refinement. With my single driver speakers, they are basically point sources so this is easier than with multi-driver systems (drivers can be out of phase with each other). With your Wilsons, hopefully the driver phase alignment is already dialed in from the install. When I've done this before and measured distance with a laser range finder, by ear I got things aligned to <1mm. The more transparent your system, the finer you can dial things in by ear. I'm sure your Wilsons are pretty dialed in already With a surround system, any pair of speakers should be able to go through the same exercise, then all the speakers as a whole. I've never tried to phase align more than 2 speakers (outside of AV surround setup) but it would be awesome to hear what a near perfectly phase aligned multi-channel setup would sound like mesonto and happybob 2 ATT Fiber -> EdgeRouter X SFP -> Taiko Audio Extreme -> Vinnie Rossi L2i-SE w/ Level 2 DAC -> Voxativ 9.87 speakers w/ 4D drivers Link to comment
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