Sloped baffle

I forgot to mention a couple of things:

When a driver is being run full-range with no crossover or Zobel, its changing impedance curve has no effect on its tone balance when using solid-state amps, but only on tube amps via interaction with their much higher output impedances. For a tube amp running a 'full range' driver, a voice-coil Zobel circuit on that driver would return its tone balance to 'factory spec'.

When a speaker has a flat impedance curve, that does not indicate if this speaker is time-coherent. From the outside, all we can see is how the many different impedance curves I described above combine into one curve.

Best,
Roy

Wouldn't it be easier just to tilt the speaker slightly backwards? I just want to listen to good music

Hi Roy,

Thanks for the discussion, but though the difference between the woof and mid remain constant, there is a difference, yes? And that means that the wave launch of a transient will not be the same for the 2 drivers, correct? The are not time aligned, it would seem. Even if the sum of the outputs through the crossover point remains correct, are we not stuck with the constant time differential between the 2 drivers?

Could you tell me what I am missing?

07-17-14: Sounds_real_audio
Wouldn't it be easier just to tilt the speaker slightly backwards?

tilting the speaker backwards attempts to merely align the acoustical centers of the drivers such that the sound from all the drivers reaches your ears at the same time.
But what about the damage done by the higher-order x-over to the phase & time coherency of the music signal? This damage is the phase distortion that Roy is talking about all along. That cannot be corrected by merely tilting the speaker backwards.

I just want to listen to good music

'good' is a relative term - your music selection is best for your taste in music. Others might not find it 'good' at all...
OR, did you mean 'good' as in well reproduced playback sonics??

Thanks Roy for the detailed explanation. :-) Was very helpful, as always.
OK, I wont put as much emphasis on the T/S parameters any more. I thought that I could read them & determine something about the quality of the driver. Not so, it seems....