I think I might have prompted this thread by my claim in the V15 SW thread that I can hear a difference in absolute phase. To be honest, even though I believe I can hear a difference, I find it difficult to decide which I prefer using my current speakers. I believe this is because they are ported and have a small bass/mid unit.
Some years back I had an active Linn system with sealed box loading of the bass/mid units. After the dealer had installed the system I was very unhappy with the bass perfomance and my complaints were met with "you're focussing on the wrong things, just listen to the music". Eventually, in desparation, I rang the Linn technical dept. and they told me that my preamp was phase inverting and I should reverse the speaker leads. Believe me I was very sceptical!! However the change in sound was very obvious and the correct phase sounded much tighter and more "correct" (on most discs). Largely irrelevant but.... I eventually sold the system because Linn had completely over done the active bass boost and even with the phase sorted I was never completely happy with the bass performance of the system. -- S-Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ S-Man's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9593 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35708 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
