void Wrote: > Most audio systems mess up the phase linearity so badly, that you won't > hear an improvement when switching the absolute phase. Even on many > very expensive high-end systems, the difference is often subtle. > > But on those few systems which have accurate phase linearity, I think > few people would have a problem to hear the improvement when absolute > phase is right (less dull, more realistic, tangible, richer sound). A > good single driver speaker and a good source help a lot. > Some CD's are out-of-phase, on some CD's an individual instrument is > recorded out-of-phase, when you switch phase, this instrument will > sound better but the rest will sound worse. > > It would be nice if the absolute phase could be selected on the SB2. > And it would be great if that could be implemented on Digital out (my > best DAC is inverting).
This page goes into more detail : http://home.att.net/~Lemon.J.Russell/audphase.htm. Not sure I'm entirely convinced, but the problem strikes me as more one of speaker design. A cone could easily behave differently in a push vs a pull due to mechanical design, and it's that difference which causes any audible change. Fix that (electrostatics?) and you're golden. As for human voices having a "large unidirectional impulse", I'm not sure how that could arise given the nature of vocal cords as, well, cords. Percussion I can much more easily believe - the first impact of a stick on a drum skin will always be of higher amplitude than any subsequent vibration, and will always be in the same direction. -- radish _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
