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Does a system always sound better with correct absolute phase, or does this depend on the room, speakers, etc. How careful are recording engineers to preserve absolute phase?
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This subject has been one of my pet peeves for awhile, but I won't rant here, I'll post on it separately.BT
This may sound like a flame in the making, but unless it bugs you, I wouldn't worry about absolute or correct phase.My Line Stage section or my preamp inverts phase, and yet my Phono Stage does not. They both sound killer to me, and very few people can hear the difference if I reverse the speaker leads.
Hmm, does this mean my system isn't revealing enough? In the end (at least to me) it still doesn't matter- it SOUNDS good to ME. Thats really all that I care...
"David! You can KILL a man with a chopstick!" -Keith Charles, Six Feet Under
Haha ... you opened a can o' worms with that question!! :-))Some people seem to be very sensitive to correct absolute phase ... others not. (Just like some poor souls are violently allergic to peanuts or shellfish ... but most of us aren't!)
If you think about it, it would be ebtter if the wavefronts which hit your ears from your speakers were the same as if you were listening live to the recording. So when the drumstick hit the cymbal, you heard the exact result.
Some electronic kit kit inverts phase, others do not. And if you have, say 3-way speakers where, because of the XO slopes, the mid-range driver is connected with reverse polarity ... then you're not likely to be able to hear the difference! OTOH, if you had Quads - which are one full-range driver with no XO - then you should most certainly be able to hear correct absolute phase vs. reversed.
However, re. the issue of whether your source material has been recorded with correct absolute phase ... hear you are at the mercy of the recording engineers. Some are "craftsmen" ... some don't give a toss! :-)) The worst situation is when some mikes in the mix are connected correctly ... and others are reversed! :-(( Then you can NEVER get correct absolute polarity - even if you did have Quads!
I spent many years obsessing about absolute polarity, before I learned about the inherent problems of 3-way speakers. As I love my Maggies, I no longer obsess about it!! :-))
Regards,
Andy
Who's to say? Correct absolute phase is the great unknown. I can hear differences in phase with some sources and speaker combos but I have no way of knowing which is "correct." One is better than another but that is all I can be sure of.Recording engineers preserving absolute phase? Be serious, we're lucky to have both channels in phase.
PS I no longer switch phase as I no longer have a pre with a phase switch and so I'm only "right" half the time.
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