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Originally Posted by pockets
I've read a lot of professional articles that would disagree with you. Ideally sound should come from two points, left and right. deviation from that, i.e. two axis from a single side can muddle the sound. In practice it doesn't happen all that often, but if separating them was the best route people wouldn't put them close together. Bass is an exception because it is omnidirectional, especially in a car.
There have been high quality coaxes made and in those the manufacturer takes a component set and mounts the tweeter over the midrange driver. High quality coaxes are harder to manufacture than high quality components, so they are rare.
And if you care about imaging, you don't aim the speakers at the driver, you aim it towards the center of the vehicle, such as the dome light or even at the opposite seat (driver side speakers pointing towards the passenger, and vice-versa)
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For imaging (lets say in a MECA sq judging). It all depends on how you're doing judging (for arguments sake we'll use the single judge class). In this class the judge sits in the drivers seat and listens to your set up. The objective is make it seam as if the drivers seat in the middle front row of a concert of any type. There for most speakers are aimed at the driver and most speakers are in front (normally a set of mids and sub are all thats needed in the back). And as to deal with imaging, a high end HU or High end amp, have built in Delay that you can adjust so that all the soundwaves reach you at the same time even though they are leaving the speakers at different times.
Now 2 judge format is harder, you essentially have two sound stages, one for each side. (judge in driver seat and judge in passenger seat) Then you must blend in the middle for the best overall score. This past years winner basically took a Tube chassis car with a stock car body on it, and shoved the seat as far back and as close to the middle as he could.