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Old July 8th 08, 01:06 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Phil Allison
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Default What's wrong with ringing?


"John Phillips"

I often see texts that imply or state outright that ringing in time-domain
audio waveforms, usually associated with time-domain discontinuities,
is to be avoided. I wonder what is the basis for this.


** So you have no idea that overshoot and ringing on a square wave trace is
generally synonymous with a HF peak in the response curve ? That is why
folk get so anxious and all worked up about it.

Even when you produce a response curve and show there is minimal or simply
no peak there in the case of sharp roll off HP filter, it is impossible to
convince all the neurotic, anxiety ridden, eye believing, ear disbelieving,
dim witted, pedantic rote learners they are wrong.

The world of hi-fi audio is chock full of ******s - not experts.

BTW:

the listening test described in that Stereophile article ( drivel really) is
highly flawed.



...... Phil