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So the other day, I was dropping off a boat amp under warranty for my brother at a popular shop in downtown Miami. While I was waiting for the amp to be replaced (they had to bring over another amp from another shop), the owner wanted to sit in on my car as we were talking about SQ builds. His shop dealt mostly with Focal and my car is mostly a Morel build. The first thing he says as he got into my car was that my sound stage was blurry, my philosophy is that the sound stage should be directly in front of the driver, but he insisted it should be on the center of the dash (so the driver would be sitting to the left of the stage). It didn't sound bad after I let him adjust it, but he also said my front stage was delayed way too much, and that my subs should be delayed as well. Here were my old settings on the DSP:
Old:
FL 8.00 FR 7.15
RL 1.40 RR 0.00
SUB 0.00
And these are the settings he dialed in:
FL 1.25 FR 0.00
RL 0.00 RR 0.00 (didn't tune the rear)
SUB (11.00)
What I thought was interesting, is that I always assumed the front stage should be delayed the most to create the illusion of depth, and that the subs didn't need any time correction at all, and that the fartherst speaker from the driver should remain at 0.00.
However, he insisted that my my front stage was far too heavily delayed and that my rear stage needed to have a higher delay than my front, and that my sub should be time corrected to give it the illusion that it is coming from the dash.
Is there a specific philosophy in time correction that I should follow, or philosophy that yields the clearest image?
Old:
FL 8.00 FR 7.15
RL 1.40 RR 0.00
SUB 0.00
And these are the settings he dialed in:
FL 1.25 FR 0.00
RL 0.00 RR 0.00 (didn't tune the rear)
SUB (11.00)
What I thought was interesting, is that I always assumed the front stage should be delayed the most to create the illusion of depth, and that the subs didn't need any time correction at all, and that the fartherst speaker from the driver should remain at 0.00.
However, he insisted that my my front stage was far too heavily delayed and that my rear stage needed to have a higher delay than my front, and that my sub should be time corrected to give it the illusion that it is coming from the dash.
Is there a specific philosophy in time correction that I should follow, or philosophy that yields the clearest image?