Opaqueice, I basically agree. I don't believe I said that it was impossible to hear phase 180 degree inversion differences - it's quite easy with a sine wave in a room...but all music - even a Bass drum - is (thank goodness) asymmetric and not very much like a sine wave, as you point out.
I also concede that it MIGHT be possible for certain people to prefer inverted or non-inverted phase for a given track or even a whole album. I can't and I have never met anyone who can but I agree that doesn't make it impossible...merely unimportant. I wonder just how many people are running inverted phase systems without knowing :0) - an awful lot of systems have overall phase inversion. It's probably worth pondering how a planar diaphragm microphone is ever supposed to capture the correct phase in the first place, even in the Bass drum example, since when the drum head moves away from the beater the diaphragm moves in towards the mic and it will either generate a negative or positive voltage depending on how it has been wired internally...and then the mic internal amp/mic pre-amp may well be phase inverting...this is on reason why those phase invert switches are there...cos when you use several mics on the same source you need to be able to control the phase relationships overall. My advice to anyone who clearly and permanently prefers their system one way round is to check to see what the DC offset is at their speaker terminals...(seriously). Phil -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35274 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
