[sdiy] DIY Mixer - please help!

[John Mahoney]

> >I understand that one trick
> > is that if you leave the spikes only in the 'negative' part of the
> > signal, they would happen when the tweeter 'pulls' and not when it
> > 'pushes', giving you a mellower high-end.
>
>Okay, now THIS I would have to see some proof of. This is starting to
>sound like audiophile hocus-pocus if you ask me. Can anyone else
>confirm or deny this? I know next to nothing about sound
>reinforcement, so I could easily be wrong on the above questions, but
>something just don't seem right...

Few pay much attention to the matter of "absolute phase (or 
polarity)" -- when your speakers get a positive signal, to they more 
inward or outward? There could be something to it. But, is absolute 
phase retained through the whole recording and reproduction chain? Doubtful.

I don't buy that asymmetric distortion is related to absolute phase, 
though. Seems more like a matter of creating certain harmonics.

John