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Sorry, now you know, how my fingers feel after trying to keep up, however drinking form a fire hose is refreshing at the least
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Getting L/R right may not affect sound or image quality but I wan't to hear the violins to my right and the cellos to my left and it's certainly noticable if you get them swapped around!Originally posted by Paul Ranson
I want to have absolute phase right for the same reason I want left to be left and right to be right. And getting the latter wrong doesn't affect the sound or image quality at all...
The only thing that may have any relevance is the response of an electrolytic cap (being polarised). However any circuit that does show such a dependence is clearly broken - as it can't accurately reproduce AC signals. Actually, I guess it's possible that devices with strong even order distortion (e.g. valve ampsAbsolute phase, the phase of a carrier with respect to the envelope of a pulse, theoretically has significant effects on intense, nonlinear laser-matter interactions, but proving that the effects actually occur has posed a problem because of difficulties in stabilizing the absolute phase in powerful laser pulses. Researchers at Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, have circumvented this by using the symmetrical properties of 5-fs laser pulses.
Originally posted by Paul Ranson
FWIW when a kick drum is kicked I want to be pushed back rather than sucked in... Unless the studio engineer wired the cable up wrong of course.
Originally posted by Lt Cdr Data
what I am curious about is when people talk about phase, the very fact of putting something tho' electronics alters the phase...capacitors shift phase 90 degrees, so as soon as something is recorded, going through all that electronics will affect the phase, then playing it back, you can't not affect it somehow...
Originally posted by michaelab
Getting L/R right may not affect sound or image quality but I wan't to hear the violins to my right and the cellos to my left and it's certainly noticable if you get them swapped around!
DOH! :shame: You're correct of courseOriginally posted by MartinC
Assuming you don't normally sit with your back to your speakers I suspect you've got your left and right mixed up there![]()
If you don't listen to orchestral recordings where this is the convention then how would you know?Getting L/R right may not affect sound or image quality but I wan't to hear the violins to my right<sic> and the cellos to my left<sic> and it's certainly noticable if you get them swapped around!
Originally posted by Paul Ranson
If you don't listen to orchestral recordings where this is the convention then how would you know?
Originally posted by Paul Ranson
To be absolutely clear, because there does seem to be some confusion still, 'absolute phase' refers to which way up the signal is, you change it by inverting the signal, either electronically or by swapping the plus and minus speaker connections around (either at the amp or speaker, not both....). The effect (if any) cannot be replicated or compensated for by any other phase processing.
Originally posted by merlin
Sorry but are you guys missing the point here.Inverting phase will not swap channels over, you are simply swapping positive for negative on each channel. try it on your speakers. See
Left is still left, right is right.
I think it's confusing to use degrees here. There is no phase shift at all.then switching it a further 180 degrees