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In Reply to: RE: DGG and polarity posted by banpuku on December 18, 2014 at 07:26:24
I have never been able to hear a phase difference on my system. On one occasion, I sat my wife and teenaged son in front of my speakers and switched phase behind their backs. Neither of them even knew that I was doing anything. I have tentatively concluded that with dipolar speakers, like my ESLs, phase differences from one recording to another are irrelevant or at least much more difficult to detect. Does anyone else here run ESLs? If so, do you hear phase differences?
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Lew,
I use Quad 63 ESL speakers and I can certainly hear the differences in polarity.
Pat
Fine speakers, but there is a complex electronic crossover and delay circuit in there which may impose phase changes that make phase reversal more evident, despite dipolar operation. (Or if the back wave of the ESL63 is attenuated, that could turn it more into a direct radiator type.) It's not a simple issue, I think.
I now have a pair of Beveridge speakers in a second system. These are basically front-firing ESLs. I have not yet experimented to find out whether I can hear phase differences on the Bevs.
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