It is interesting to note that, while the audio world dotes upon specifications for frequency response, rarely does any information regarding a speaker's time performance ever see the light of day.  But, there is hope: much to their credit, the editors of Stereophile Magazine have been publishing the critical data on each speaker that has been reviewed for the past few years - the 'step response'. Now, the step response tells you everything that you need to know about a speaker's timing fidelity, but - since most readers don't have any idea how to interpret the information -  it's value has been more or less overlooked.

That's understandable. For years I, and a few others, have tried to explain this stuff with words that a non-engineer can quickly grasp. Unfortunately, our efforts have pretty much fallen flat.

But now, thanks to web animation, I can show you what's happening in the time domain in a way that will make things clear to you in a very few minutes.

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