Thank you, mah. This article will require considerable study, but looks to be worth the effort. I sure like the term "transient perfect" and the various square wave responses look a lot like what I have heard, i.e. clean vs. scrambled. If I understand the author correctly, the "2nd Order Transient Perfect" crossover connects the drivers in the same polarity with aligned acoustic centers and fills the response hole at crossover by overlapping the responses somewhat. Nice!
"Perfect" replication of a broadband point-source acoustic impulse by any two non-coincident tranducers is simply not possible. There are just varying degrees of a reasonable facsimile. A percussion impulse originates from a single pinpoint location.
Two bullets on converging paths won't become one when they collide.
"[I]We're going all the way, till the wheels fall off and burn[/I]!"
Bob Dylan, from [I]Brownsville Girl[/I]
[I]"Time wounds all heels"[/I]
John Lennon, referring to the Nixon/Hoover deportation fiasco.
WOW!
A lot of interesting thoughts here. Since I have the ability to change polarity as well as distance of the 2 drivers in my set up, I think I will just experiment and choose that which sounds best to my ears. Theory, papers and opinions are great but in the end isn't what sounds best to the listener what we are all trying to achieve?
After I complete my project I will post my conclusions.
Thanks,
MM
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