Time correct. Basicly delay the time that the speaker(s) fire in relation to some other speaker(s). what this does is to coordinate the time the sound arives at a location so it all arives at the same time.
The only problem with time correction is ususaly it only works for one seat in the car.
whatll really blow your mind is how to get an even distribution of snare drum, rather than correcting a perfect center image and finding the three on each side bunched together.
I remember in doing this, not only TC has a role, but balance also important....I really don't understand why, because balance should remain in the center. Anyway, probably is reflection or something.....
One of my friends has a 2001 Cadillac DeVille and he has an Alpine deck, I don't remember what model but I noticed right away when I rode with him, the imaging sounded really bad.. but then I forgot that he had all of the TC settings so it sounded good to him..
One of my friends has a 2001 Cadillac DeVille and he has an Alpine deck, I don't remember what model but I noticed right away when I rode with him, the imaging sounded really bad.. but then I forgot that he had all of the TC settings so it sounded good to him..
you want hard? try dual seat judging. in the higher iasca classes they judge both seats for imaging... now thats a pain in the ass
by dual seat judging i think he will only get 1/2 of what he has.....
Anyway, we build our system to self pleasure, why we want to care about what imaging is for the passenger? That only creates headaches and I am not going into that....
Another thing to take into consideration is that placing your tweeters a good distance from the mid bass isn't good for imaging.
*shrug* I see that all the time at competition....... the imaging characteristics are still amazing in their cars.
I would say its an effect caused more by how on or off axis a speaker is positioned at what distance from equal pathlength that would make all the difference. afterall, if the speakers are equal pathlengths, they will be 100% in phase, whether the speakers are in front of you or even behind you, much less merely high and low.
so its definitely possible with tweets up high and mids down low to get fantstic imaging, even with midbasses behind you! its all about pathlength and dispersion patterns
Last edited by WhiteRabbit : 12-08-2004 at 11:47 PM.
I am not an expert but I believe this is where time correction can help too. Since basicly it can equalize the path lengths. Since the mids and tweeters will likely be at the same level for driver and passenger you could in theory delay the tweets (if they are in the a pillars they will likely be closer) and raise up the sound stage of the mids because your ear will be fooled into thinking all the sound is coming from the closest speakers.
Can anyone tell me if this is correct or is my assumption false?
*shrug* I see that all the time at competition....... the imaging characteristics are still amazing in their cars.
I would say its an effect caused more by how on or off axis a speaker is positioned at what distance from equal pathlength that would make all the difference. afterall, if the speakers are equal pathlengths, they will be 100% in phase, whether the speakers are in front of you or even behind you, much less merely high and low.
so its definitely possible with tweets up high and mids down low to get fantstic imaging, even with midbasses behind you! its all about pathlength and dispersion patterns
For awhile, I had my tweets up high in the A-Pillars near the headliner and my mids in my kickpanels.. But then I relocated the tweets in the factory location in the sail panels but I still got awesome imaging with the previous set up.
