I just discovered something rather disturbing, and it finally makes sense why sometimes my rig just didn't sound right. Why I didn't notice this two years ago (or more) I'll never know.
Tonight I'm listening to Beck's Sea Change and something just didn't sound right. It's like the bass with really thin. So I'm at my changer with my head right between the center channel and the right speaker and I hear the sucked out, hollow sound like when you cross a speaker cable, yes it's out of phase.
Horrified that I could make such a rookie mistake, I cross the cables at my center to correct the problem. Bass is fine, sounds great. Next SACD up, the only rap album on SACD, it's back, center and right channel (or the left) out of phase and it's obvious with any track that carries bass in the center and main channels.
So now I'm trying different SACDs, and I'm trying DTS music CDs and DVD movies to see if it's an issue at the receiver. Every movie, every DTS music CD, and every other SACD (except one) are in phase with my original set up.
Norah Jones had this flabby, thin bass and sure enough, that disc is out of phase as well in the center channel. Any one else find other SACDs with this issue?
At this point, I'm bummed that I have to fiddle with my system to hear these two discs properly. At this point, I also can't find a logical reason why this problem would exist in a bad interconnect, or speaker connect, if it was it would be every disc across the board.
- Tony
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