Agreeing with both Pat and Patrick, I always smile when someone uses the "kick-drum" example regarding absolute polarity. As a drummer once said to me (in a rare moment of lucidity) "I'm playing the damn thing and as far as I'm concerned, it goes away from me first!"
...of course, a kick-drum is pretty much the only example anyone ever uses...it's very hard to figure out what absolute polarity might mean for a guitar... all of this is notwithstanding the fact that absolute polarity of a mix or individual track is rarely obtained all the way from the mics/transducers/whatever is generating or recording the sound so nobody has any idea what is "correct" in most cases anyway. I know this is probably going to annoy some folks, but I've yet to hear any effect of reversing mix polarity - it just sounds the same to me (and no, I'm not deaf, in need of a hearing test or a better system!) I can switch phase on my TACT and the only reason I'd ever do that is for sub-integration... I agree that phase coherency (a totally different concept as mentioned by Pat) across the spectrum is important and that is one reason why I will only use active speakers with line-level crossovers (analogue) ...or speakers that simply don't have passive crossovers...YMMV of course. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
