That's right, Mike.The point I was making was that perfect time alignment isn't possible in a speaker system, at least with current technology. Even a single driver is not immune because it is not really a point source. It is a moving plane that only acts like a point source at low frequencies.
But with careful choices of directivity, baffle spacing and crossover, you can provide constructive summing (i.e. good response) over a wide angular coverage angle.