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Careful .....

Posted by Todd Krieger (A) on May 7, 2007 at 20:59:31

In Reply to: Wood Effect question. posted by richardl on May 7, 2007 at 12:23:53:

The first issue is to be sure all of the speaker's drivers are in the same polarity. Not all speakers are designed this way.... Often, the driver placement and characteristics make inversion of one driver relative to the other more "seamless" in response at the crossover frequency. (The best check for this is the acoustic impulse or step response. Most speakers do poorly here, but the relative polarity amongst the drivers can be determined quite easily.)

The second item is that more-often than not, if the music sounds "louder" at the same volume level, I usually find the sound worse. I think due to increased distortion components. Except for the frequency extremes- Non-inverted playback seems to go deeper in the bass and have more acoustic "air" and "sparkle" at HF.

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