I don't know all the answers to your questions but I get what your getting at. We had a similar thread about phase on multi channel playback on a meridian system where one user calibrated his system with all the same make amps and speakers and found his system sounded "better" (using the built in phase test) when his center channel was negative absolute phase. And Meridian came back and said that is perfectly "normal" in some situations.
http://www.meridianunplugged.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000222#000000 Meridian also allows the user to change the Absolute Phase on the fly based on material being played. This is their comments on this feature from the manual: Changing the absolute phase The Phase parameter changes the phase of the signal to all speakers. This can alter the ambience and bass impact for some material. Also Meridian doesn't do Balance control like most companies. If you tweak the balance left or right it not only changes the Levels it also changes the Timing !!! to keep the phase correct. Very advanced installers take this idea to the next level when calibrating a multichannel setup (including the sub) and tweak the timing (distance setting) on each speaker to fine tune the phase on each speaker. The difference can be dramatic (positive or negative) depending on knowing what your doing. Meridian speakers also have vertical phase timing between the drivers (called Axis control). You can basically ajust the vertical image based on you seating position relative to your drivers. Basically a Vertical Balance. Note this all effects the quality of the Music played from the SqueezeBox be it 2 Channel PCM and synthesized to multi-channel or 5.1 DTS/DD Music ripped from DVD-V/DVD-A's. -- mswlogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35708 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
