opaqueice Wrote: > I've also decided to ignore his posts, at least until he changes his > tone, as I don't find they contribute anything to the discussion. > > On a more interesting subject, I've tried Tom's suggestion of turning > the speakers around. Actually, I found this easiest to do with my > Grado phones. > > First, to characterize the original difference more, there is a loud > buzzing sound with both polarities, but underlying it there seems to be > a lower frequency, more pure-tone sound. It's the pitch of that > subdominant sound which changes or seems to change between the two > polarities. > > With the phones reversed (each speaker facing away from my ear), it's > much harder to hear the pitch of that lower sound. I think I can still > identify it, and it seems to be the same as with the phones in their > ordinary position, but I'm really not sure. If so, that would support > distortion in the electronics and/or speaker cones over some physical > effect in the sound waves themselves. > > So this is a bit inconclusive. I've attached a zipped WAV file with a > short version of the test file I made, in case anyone else wants to try > to give this a listen.
Why do you assume facing the speakers away from you will reverse polarity? -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23759 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
