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I have been experimenting with the DVD-A digital time-alignment feature of my Denon DVD-A11 / -5900, and I've found that by setting the rears to a distance of only 3ft* (when in fact they are about 7ft away from my sofa), the perceived sound they produce appears to come from even further behind -- thus making the soundfield in my room seem significantly enlarged, particularly with hall ambience in classical recordings. It also means I can turn-up the rears (i.e. louder) without them 'taking over' the mix because any transients from them occur AFTER corresponding ones from the fronts (i.e. the fronts now 'lead' while the rears follow a few milliseconds later).*The player applies additional time-delay based on the closer distance setting.
Has anybody else tried this? Are there any negative drawbacks?
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I've played with this a bit and some speakers 'behave' better with different (plus or minus) settings from the objective.
By the way, do you know what happens to redirected bass when time-alignment is used in conjunction with bass management? (i.e. does the redirected portion get time-shifted too?)
I do not know but I suspect it is hardware-dependant.
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