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I have that recording and it is a very nice recording. Even if it is all colored up with tubes and tape.
I'll be submitting my order after the holidays, getting all my friends Rolex's and new Caddy's for Christmas right now.
Not to worry Dennis, your top of the list!We're pals aren't we Sal?
I need someone to explain to me how he achieves the Time Alignment they so much talk about...
I would guess the measurements will come in the future promised Mikey Fremer review.And what a shame, Stereophile didn't measure them. Or was it that after talking about microseconds timing they auditioned them with only the finest sources from a turntable of course.
Yes, that's probably what I'd say too if I didn't have phase coherence.Dave Wilson said:"It's about time; it's all about time. Flat frequency response, low distortion, extended bandwidth, and accurate timing synchronicity are equally important. It's nice if you have phase coherence, but it is not necessary. What I'm interested in is the synchronicity of the leading edge of each note."
Yes, that's probably what I'd say too if I didn't have phase coherence.
A quote from a review of a speaker where the phase correction can be turned off:Well whilst it is true that very, very few speakers are phase coherent, Quqd 63 and derivatives perhaps (??) it is also true that almost zero modern recordings are either.
Any recording mixed from multiple spot microphones, ie all pop and nowadays pretty well all classical too, can not be phase coherent.
These two facts lead me to be happy that phase coherence in speakers could make, at best, a microscopically tiny contribution to SQ and then on pretty well only vintage recordings.
If phase coherence was an important contributor to SQ we would have to have been well aware of it and I suppose high-fidelity equipment would never have developed in the way it has.
One problem with the audio 'meme' that "phase doesn't matter" is that historical experiments could not compare undistorted phase against distorted phase because there were no speakers capable of producing high quality sound with undistorted phase. Couple that with the 'meme' that all listening tests are best carried out with in mono with single speakers, and it easy to see how it could have been missed that phase is audible, and especially that undistorted phase is essential for excellent stereo imaging.Low-latency mode brings the in/ out delay to a perfectly usable 1ms, by disabling the look-ahead element of the LF overload limiting and also by switching off the system phase correction. It makes for a fascinating listening experience. I very much doubt that a change in LF overload protection would be audible at the kind of moderate levels I listen at, however the change of phase response is clearly audible. The monitor loses a little of its imaging ability and overall precision in low-latency mode so that things sound a little less ‘together’.
Not so, linn make one too.. So I believe .The Kii Three is completely phase coherent on 'normal ' latency, you do lose that though if you select 'low' latency mode. It is the only speaker available to offer this I believe.
Keith