Is Your System In Phase?

[agent_kith]

Thanks a lot, Agent Kith!  I found mine is Inverted Phase but the setting should be correct.  Need to check where is wrong later.  Now I reversed the speaker cables +/- to solve it first. 

If I remember correctly, in the blog linked above, the most common issues are:

• Balanced gear: Running US and Euro gear together (One is 2 hot while the other is 3 hot)
  
• Single Ended gear: Running Conrad Johnson gear and didn't invert the phase
  
• User error: Mixed red with black when connectinig the speaker cables on the amp side
  

It's also fairly common for people to mix up left and right. If you have those Chesky or Denon test albums, play the left/right channel tests to make sure everything is setup correctly.

Not the phase check tracks on these CDs are testing if both your speakers are in the same phase (this is the correct technical term for "in phase"). If one speaker is + and the other -, this is called "out of phase". So the "in phase" is in terms of the speakers.



My thread title of "In Phase" is more about "in phase" with audio track.

Just realised the link above is broken with the change to the new web server. Have updated the URL to make it work now. Will fix up the rest later this week. But for now you can read through that article to get an idea.

In Hifi, I generally believe there is no such thing as "right vs wrong", each to their own... This however is the exception..  With this track, the woofers must only move out, not in. Tweeters I'm not so sure (as some crossovers require it to be +180 phase to the woofers I think).

Edit: Also, I meant "good soft" volume, not loud...