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RE: Phase Angle

Posted by Frihed89 (A) on November 25, 2010 at 00:31:50

In Reply to: Phase Angle posted by Mechans on November 24, 2010 at 09:44:04:

The problem is that, unless the speaker you may want to buy has been reviewed by Stereophile, you'll never get very good information about the relationship between either the electrical load or phase angle and frequency. What you want, ideally, is a flat electrical load curve (higher is better) that is independent of frequency and a phase angle curve that ripples along without taking any large dives into negative territory -- especially at low impedances. The ideal doesn't exist. But some truly awful examples do, especially as you add drivers, and as one poster indicated, electrostats can be a very capacitive load, the Quad '57s being the worst example I know of.

I always ask the mfr for both pieces of information, and sometimes get it.

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