No...unfortunately....it doesn't The speakers off-axis (or on-axis) frequency response wouldn't play a roll in this decision? Is it safe to make the blanket claim that with no speaker does aiming matter? Hmm....I dunno. After reading this I decided to go out and play around in my car some (since I have digital time alignment available in .1ms steps). Mids and tweets mounted in doors. I must say....the difference between 0 delay and 2.0ms delay, imaging and tonality wise, was huge. With 0 time delay the sound was diffused, no real center image to speak of at all, and you could clearly tell that you were sitting directly next to the speakers on the driver's side. With 2ms time delay the sound was much more coherent, tonality improved greatly as it didn't sound like a mumbled up mess, and the image was fairly well centered now. Tried this with both music and the 7 drum beat track. Experienced the same affects on both. And as you turned the knob to increase or decrease delay, you could clearly hear the image and diffusion (or coherentness) increase and decrease....almost like it was sliding along a scale. Psychoacoustics? I guess I can't write it off completely, since I have no way of doing an ABX test. Or maybe the deck's "2ms delay" isn't a true 2ms? I dunno.......