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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD player differences - did you control for absolute phase?
Message-ID: <4185@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:49:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:49:40 1985
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Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered
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Kim Rochat demonstrates a typical sort of attitude for nut.audio, i.e.
Rochat says:
".. discount all of your tests until you control absolute phase"
(that's paraphrased, it's not worth dragging out of the file)

This person then goes on to point out that absolute phase
is a necessary condition for comparisons, and provides
several references. All fine and dandy (and true), except for one thing:

ABSOLUTE PHASE IS INDEED IMPORTANT, AND CAN MAKE TWO EXACTLY
IDENTICAL SIGNALS (EXCEPT FOR INVERSIONS) SOUND NOTICIBLY DIFFERENT.
WE DID NOT HEAR  ANY SUCH DIFFERENCE, thus, by the publicly available
information, the absolute phase must have been right :-(hey, fancy
that, us people in NJ can actually do something
right. Amazing, isn't it? :-(  Furthermore,
since Rochat knows that, Rochat can extract the answer to Rochat's
own question.   None the less, Rochat takes the popular view
and attacks.

Fascinating, isn't it?
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