Re: OT: BBE sonic maximizer

["mr.monk" <monk@fuse.net>]

i've been told that exciters actually delay certain frequency areas to 
make them more or less phase coherent for effect..


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On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 01:51 PM, sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:

> Uh... I find this a little hard to believe.  How could it possibly 
> know what the correct signal
> should be like?  I imagine that phase distortion can vary wildly from 
> device to device and are very
> complex.  Sounds like pseudo science (see: Marketing) to me.  What if 
> you put it all through your
> cables running in the wrong direction?  What I imagine the BBE sonic 
> maximizer is doing is adding
> small amounts of eq boost to certain frequencies when they already 
> exist at some defined level.  Am I
> wrong?
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
> S V G wrote:
>
>>          It's not an EQ device like the exciter type modules, rather 
>> it "corrects" the phase
>> distortions that occur from sending any signal through an amp and 
>> speakers.
>