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Old 2007-08-31, 09:27 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by khail19 View Post
Without time alignment, having stereo sound coming from more than 2 speakers tends to pull the soundstage back towards the rear. If you have the ability to properly delay all the speakers to create the proper ambience for rear fill, then it can improve your sound. Most systems don't have this capabiility, so having a single point source for left and right channels is usually the way to go.

Most of the high end decks nowadays do have some time alignment built in (mine does), but it seems that the market for features like that has been steadily declining for the last 5-10 years.
Yeah who cars about car audio quality when everyone's on their cell phones all the time anyway.
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