In Reply to: Re: Acoustic polarity, again posted by tomservo on May 6, 2007 at 06:42:48:
...speakers with decent phase response. We can hear so much more!Would that were a more often observed criterion.
"For more on the rarely discussed “time†aspect of loudspeakers, look up Richard Heyser’s landmark paper on 'determination of loudspeaker arrival times'." Even more helpful would be his September, 1979, paper in Audio, in which he declares that Absolute Polarity confusion is the single greatest problem facing audio nation. Clearly Heyser was not one to let poorly-designed loudspeakers stand in the way of useful scientific principle.
clark
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Follow Ups
- "VERY few multi-way speakers do it at all." Lucky us, then! Who have... - clarkjohnsen 13:47:44 05/06/07 (9)
- Re: "VERY few multi-way speakers do it at all." Lucky us, then! Who have... - tomservo 14:45:01 05/06/07 (8)
- Nice story. Mine goes like this: - clarkjohnsen 07:51:59 05/07/07 (7)
- Re: Nice story. Mine goes like this: - tomservo 10:46:24 05/07/07 (6)
- On the CD, compared to what there was to record with before ones and zero’s... - clarkjohnsen 13:48:19 05/07/07 (5)
- Re: On the CD, compared to what there was to record with before ones and zero’s... - tomservo 14:28:48 05/07/07 (4)
- Hmmm... but in the early days even great old analog tapes transferred to CD sounded bad. Moreover... - clarkjohnsen 08:52:55 05/08/07 (2)
- Re: Hmmm... but in the early days even great old analog tapes transferred to CD sounded bad. Moreover... - tomservo 10:03:08 05/08/07 (1)
- Also who ever keeps spouting Nyquist... needs to be shown the light." Or, the door... - clarkjohnsen 10:14:52 05/08/07 (0)
- Better be careful ! - E-Stat 16:43:05 05/07/07 (0)