Simply put nope. What is "silent"? To the ear or to some instrument of which kind? Again, there is too much 'signal'-thinking involved. One cannot and will never replicate a 'signal' because that is distorted, lost, what have You, in the production process. Even in the listening process, two ears left right with mutual cross talk, even with a single speaker. Speaker in front, stereo at the sides, anybody?... time for the transient to silent fast.
Real science is still on the way to understand human hearing. But the audiophile knows it all: the graphics in the magazine shall look edgy right. Because of the science (as the audiophile understands it).
In order to optimize hearing aids (!) for really demanding people science concluded that a phase rotation giving about a few milli seconds of a group delay equivalent wasn't objectional for any (!) hearing task. Science specifies it more in that even 10..20ms in the bass below 100Hz or so is not the least perceptible, let alone objectionable, while in the mids around 1kHz we have the most critical band. Here best is to keep group delay below 2ms. And that again is for perceptibility alone. Not that it changes the quality of the sound in any way--it means the same to the human mind, its only just a bit not quite the very same.
The audiophile jumps up yelling "Not the same signal, fraud!" Right, but the sound means the same to the human mind. If that does not please the audiophile, he should change his mind one or the other way.
Anyway, there are nearly no (!) speakers around that break the limits stated above. We are good, isn't it terrible?!
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