Troels Gravesen seems to like stepped baffles and uses them a lot in his designs,
DIY Loudspeaker Projects Troels Gravesen
He is a prolific speaker designer and has designed speakers for Janzen and other companies.
Many of his designs incorporate a stepped baffle in order to time align the drivers.
Is this good or bad?
Doesn't time aligning the drivers on a stepped baffle mess up the off axis response? In other words, they are only time aligned face on and the more off axis you go, the less time aligned they are?
Isn't it best to compensate for the Z alignment of the drivers with the crossover on a flat baffle and therefore retain that time alignment off axis?
And then there are the diffraction problems that a stepped baffle introduces...
Thoughts?
DIY Loudspeaker Projects Troels Gravesen
He is a prolific speaker designer and has designed speakers for Janzen and other companies.
Many of his designs incorporate a stepped baffle in order to time align the drivers.
Is this good or bad?
Doesn't time aligning the drivers on a stepped baffle mess up the off axis response? In other words, they are only time aligned face on and the more off axis you go, the less time aligned they are?
Isn't it best to compensate for the Z alignment of the drivers with the crossover on a flat baffle and therefore retain that time alignment off axis?
And then there are the diffraction problems that a stepped baffle introduces...
Thoughts?