Phil Leigh Wrote: > Sean - many thanks for taking the time to reply. I wonder if the > firmware 15 afficianado's were listening to the analogue output... > > I also agree that a polarity setting (with album/track preference in > the database) might be useful. How can I vote for that enhancement > request? - it would be a USP (albeit to a very minority customer > sector!). > > Whilst switching polarity on my TACT 2.2x, I noticed that as you have > to switch both channels separately there is always a moment when the > sound is out of phase until the second channel is switched. This is > very bad for comparisons, since the return to "in-phase" from "out of > phase" is such a relief that it is hard to compare polarity settings > with any confidence. > > > > I've been doing so more exploratory research on polarity. First, > someone mentioned guitars, so I dug out one of mine where the polarity > of each pickup can be switched. The purpose of this is to create > alternate "out of phase" (sic) pickup combo settings. However, using > just one pickup I could detect absolutely no difference in sound - even > using heavy palm muting to create asymmetric transients of the sort that > might be polarity sensitive. Believe me, us guitarists are VERY > sensitive to any timbre/dynamics changes in our instruments. As an > aside, it was my guitars that finally convinced me that cables sounded > different...although there is a scale of diminishing return which I may > have exceeded on the hi-fi front :o) > > Thinking this through further - it makes sense. There is no "absolute > phase" in an electric guitar - it's just nonsense. Which way (in or > out?) does the speaker cone move when the string goes up/down vs. > down/up? The very question is crazy... > > > So I've given up on electric (indeed any) guitar. Bass drum - yes, that > might make sense in isolation. Vocals - yes maybe there could be > something in that. After all, humans are very sensitive to the sound of > the human voice - it is "deep progamming". Garage doors slamming - could > be... > > However, using the Alan Parsons test disc and also some very clean > Ladysmith Black Mambazo recordings, I stil can't hear polarity effects > on vocals. > > Next I'm going to try some "vinyl drops" to see if I can hear anything > there - especially in the background noise. > > It would still be interesting to get some views on preferred polarity > on a few widely available, popular recordings for reference purposes - > any takers out there?
Do you have a system that creates a sound stage? I would never try to identify phase on individual instruments. Regards -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23706 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
