Jitter, good catch! If speaker drivers are not wired in the same Polarity that would be Big Gnus. 🐂 🐂 🐂 You can hear it right away, I mean, if you can hear. Why would anyone do that intentionally? If it doesn’t make sense it’s not true. JBL did have a woofer wired out of Polarity on some models for quite a while, dunno why. There’s an easy test with a battery across the driver terminals to ensure all drivers are in the same Polarity. Highly recommended.
High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.
Something that came as a surprise to me is how good DAC's have gotten over the past 5-10 years.
Before then, there was a consistent, marked improvement going from Redbook (44.1/16) to 96/24 or higher.
The modern DAC, the best of them, no longer do this. The Redbook playback is so good high resolution is almost not needed. Anyone else notice this?
Before then, there was a consistent, marked improvement going from Redbook (44.1/16) to 96/24 or higher.
The modern DAC, the best of them, no longer do this. The Redbook playback is so good high resolution is almost not needed. Anyone else notice this?
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With 2-way speakers, this is usually the case. The reason has to do with time and crossover phase. It is considered far more important to have them work well through the crossover slope. Stereophile's speaker measurements do a great job of showing this. Look at figure 7 here, and the discussion right above it: https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-8-loudspeaker-measurements The measurements are typical for a good quality multi-way speaker, like the Monitor Audio line. You can test any driver you can touch / see with a 1.5 to 9V battery. The + terminal should make the driver move towards the listener when the + of the battery is connected to it, with the negative pole attached to the - battery. This may be very difficult with an AMT or ribbon however. From what I have seen, most speaker makers like to keep the bass in positive polarity, and then invert the other drivers to suit. Vandersteen and Thiel go through extraordinary efforts to avoid doing this, so they are among the rare exceptions. Best, E |
Can I add something to the mix here...and if the CD kbs rate is 1400, and Tidal is streaming full CD 1400kbs over CELL TOWERS to my phone, and through my Comcast cable to Mac's Tidal app...for $10/month why are we even talking about CDs? Henceforth, there should be zero difference between whatever 1400kbs signal reaches an audiophile DAC to process. |
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