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In Reply to: Been done. Blind tests and everything. It's real. posted by markrohr on August 19, 2005 at 07:00:09:
Those were the results of blind testing: There is unfortunately no absolute polarity preserved on almost all commercial recordings ... and most speakers and listening room reflections will obscure polarity differences.Audibility is rare with commercial recordings unless the CD recording engineers specifically cared about absolute phase ... which would be rare, IMHO.
Even without preserving absolute polarity, there could be audible differences when overall polarity is reversed: The CD mastering engineer should compare the "mastertape" sound quality with and without phase reversed before making his master CD for the CD pressing factory (so we listeners will get the best sound quality, assuming he can hear any difference) ... but I doubt if many CD mastering engineers bother doing this. Maybe Steve Hoffman and two others in the world?
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- Very rare that absolute phase is audible with commercial recordings - Richard BassNut Greene 08/19/0507:13:01 08/19/05 (5)
- Example....... - jea48 14:49:02 08/20/05 (1)
- Re: Example....... - john curl 23:00:15 08/20/05 (0)
- For you, perhaps, Richard. - markrohr 09:12:18 08/19/05 (0)
- That's only if you listen to crapola "music". nt - clarkjohnsen 08:13:12 08/19/05 (1)
- Gee, I hear it readily on crapola music, too. ;-) - markrohr 09:12:55 08/19/05 (0)
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