Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site moncol.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!moncol!ben From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Equipment Review: NAD 2200 (+ AR SRC addendum) Message-ID: <305@moncol.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-May-85 12:32:24 EDT Article-I.D.: moncol.305 Posted: Sat May 18 12:32:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 19-May-85 10:09:39 EDT References: <940@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Lines: 11 >The second radical feature is bass inversion in the right channel. The >bass signal in that channel is inverted, amplified, then inverted again >before it's output. This results in the bass drawing power out of phase >with itself, so it needs less power - or, so you can get better bass >with the same amount of power. Sorry, but this feature is neither new nor radical. It has been used in high powered tube equipment for years. Actually, I assume that the *entire* right channel is phase inverted. A circuit that only inverted the bass would be a sonic nightmare.