Wombat wrote: 
> The legendary pre-ringing is something that should be a non-issue with
> DACs that work correctly. 
> Once there were some false implemented hardware that caused
> intermodulation of the pre-ringing into the audible band. This is no
> problem anymore.
> Unfortunately it is easy to show as fancy picture that even can be
> "improved" with magic filtering.  
> This is audiophile tuning at its best. A graph that shows anomalities
> that dispaear when filtered. This must be better...
> Also remember that this ringing normaly happens above 21kHz and there
> are several reasons it shouldn´t be a problem.  Even think about that
> many tweeters don´t produce much content there.
> In reality nearly all non-linear filters will cause lots of time
> smearing even starting at frequencies around 10kHz that surely change
> the audible signal but look soo good for the pre-ringing picture.
> 
> I seldom take marketing writings but this is what Benchmark thinks about
> it and i think they are right:
> http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/discuss/forum/general-conversation/apodizing-filters
> 
> I doubt you can produce some signal that causes your Transporter to
> hickup.
> 
> It should be possible to produce a file with a huge amount of
> pre-ringing with a "maximum phase" filter to do some abx. If you like i
> may have a looky how to produce such a file.

Thanks Wombat. Benchmark gives a nice explanation. I'm aware of the
phase changes but didn't know that minimum phase filters could cause
foldback distortion they talk of...


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