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Flawed? Wilson's Aspherical Propagation Delay

Greetings,

I've always wondered about this...

Recently I read an interview with Alon Wolf who stated that separating drivers into boxes that are adjustable would not work for him because the crossover would need to be reworked or adjusted.

Wilson is proud of their adjustable cabinets in their upper models, but I'm wondering how, in technical terms, they avoid phase and time errors and as Alon pointed out, how the crossover deals with the drivers in different locations and different angles?

I've heard Wilsons set up before and there is a distinct advantage to the adjustable enclosures when they are setup optimally for the listener's height and distance from the loudspeakers, but is there a shortcoming or compromise in doing so?
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razmika
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Lrsky wrote:
"For a speaker to be 'truly' phase correct, time function, being 'distance' in this context, would have to be correct also"

According to JA, Wilson speakers are neither phase correct nor time aligned or coincident (Their midrange is actually wire out-of-phase).
I thought that physical time alignment happens when drivers physical location are aligned with each other , not to the listener... I mean, how exactly can you "time align" anything on an angle?

Looks to me that Wilson has to "tilt" his drivers simply because they are located to high for any reasonable listening position. It has nothing to do with time or phase alignment.
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