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Originally Posted by clarkjohnsen  [
One of the most nonsensical statements I read here goes, "Telarc always made sure that their bass drums would produce an outward-going woofer [excursion] for most impact." And just how were they able to assure this?
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It's not nonsensical when you supply the obvious missing parts that I thought would be obvious to an observer as perspicacious as you. But I'll supply the missing parts of the paragraph:
1) Telarc ensured correct absolute polarity throughout their signal chain.
2) The statement about the bass drum assumes that the listener's listener's reproduce system has been calibrated for correct absolute polarity. It's a syllogism.
For example, until I discovered that my Lipinskis were incorrect, then signals put on the so-called plus terminal produce the incorrect polarity on the Telarc bass drum.
3) In the analog days, since there was no official standard for magnetic coil polarity there was still a 50-50 chance of being right or wrong, but in digital the polarity of a digital signal is absolutely defined and therefore can be applied at the analog end to the loudspeaker.
4) Obviously the more minimalist the recording, the more that the acoustical wavefronts will align without ambiguity and throwing the thing into a mess.
All this stands to reason but does not reduce the requirement that the loudspeakers themselves must be polarized correctly.
I hope this supplies the obvious missing pieces and that we can move on from this nonsense.
BK