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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Subject: Re: speaker phasing
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan21.203132.15782@microplex.com> <C18Fow.38w@world.std.com> <1993Jan23.001907.6524@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:07:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.001907.6524@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >>
- >>As a general rule, yes. There are also explicit and de-facto standards
- >>that say a positive voltage applied to the positive terminal of a driver
- >>will cause the cone to move outwards.
- >
- >Hmmmmm...I was under the impression that it wasn't nearly so universal
- >a standard. Since it's fairly common for the tweeter of a two-way system
- >to be wired with a polarity that's the reverse of the woofer, this gives
- >the manufacturer the choice of which driver should move outwards when a
- >positive voltage is applied to the red terminal; usually they pick the
- >woofer (which seems sensible to me anyway) but not always--the Apogee
- >Stage, for example, is wired the other way around with the woofer
- >"backwards."
-
- It's only true of two way systems using 2nd order crossovers to reverse
- the phase of the tweeter (where its necessary to prevent the cancellation
- null due to the -90 deg phase shift of the woofer and the +90 degree shift
- in the tweeter). WHile there may be some reasons to reverse them in other
- configurations, it's less common.
-
- In fact, it is a standard, and codified in several EIA, IEC and ISO
- standards explicitly. So it's not really a matter of choice if you pay
- attention to the standards. But who's looking? :-)
-
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