awwww - this started off as a nice little discussion about absolute phase and its significance in modern society and now its got all technical...
passive x-overs in speakers will mess up phase response big time whilst trying to "correct" frequency/amplitude response. This is ONE of the reasons that active speakers CAN sound way better than passive ones. Wild horses wouldn't drag me back to passive x-overs at any price ... or no room correction (be it passive/mechanical or active/electronic). I've kind of lost the thread, but whoever said that messing up relative phase/frequency response is a very bad thing was right on the money. These things are at least 2 orders of magnitude more important than worrying about absolute phase - which doesn't exist even as a concept in anything other than very simply mic'd recordings anyway (actually - scratch that. anything with more than 2 mics/tracks will likely have phase response "issues") What everyone tends to forget is that our ears are connected to a brain that is doing incredibly complex processing that we do not fully understand before we actually "hear" anything. This processing is highly personal - which is probably why we will never all agree on "accurate" or "better" or even "OK"... -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
