watchnerd
Grand Contributor
Below are step responses from a number of different high end / audiophile speakers:
Clearly, they're all over the map and highly variable.
Some look nearly "textbook" good, while others look pretty bad from a "textbook" POV.
Yet many of the speakers with "bad" step responses get positive subjective reviews.
If there is such variability, and low correlation with subjective preferences, do step responses really matter very much?
Is optimizing for superior time-alignment actually an unimportant design goal?





Clearly, they're all over the map and highly variable.
Some look nearly "textbook" good, while others look pretty bad from a "textbook" POV.
Yet many of the speakers with "bad" step responses get positive subjective reviews.
If there is such variability, and low correlation with subjective preferences, do step responses really matter very much?
Is optimizing for superior time-alignment actually an unimportant design goal?