To see how a square wave appers after it's played back through a SUPPREME (and of course expensive) headphones, visit innerfidelity com website, they have conducted such tests. Though it looks like anything but a square, it still sounds like a square.
Of course it changes the waveform. However that has nothing to do with whether it is AUDIBLY DIFFERENT or not (it's not, phase changes are only audible WHILE they're changing because a sliding phase shift is the same as a slight pitchbend)
Sinus waves are meaningless since the have no harmonics. They're pure tones. So, no phase shift can be observed among the different frequencies. Music and sounds always contains different frequencies, so any phase shift affects the waveform.
Using a square wave produces the most obvious results on the waveform which was desirable for this demonstration.
I have always felt that phase coherence and impulse/transient behavior in audio gear and loudspeakers to be very important. A system capable of a clean phase/transient/impulse response just sounds right to me. Speaker systems that have higher order electrical filters typically sound unnatural to my ears. Most argue that the difference is inaudible but I can hear it under most circumstances. Someone should make a blind test! Thanks for posting this.
Click 0:07 and listen for a few seconds
Click 0:21 and listen for a few seconds
To me it sounds different
14wasp 2 months ago
To see how a square wave appers after it's played back through a SUPPREME (and of course expensive) headphones, visit innerfidelity com website, they have conducted such tests. Though it looks like anything but a square, it still sounds like a square.
Parkinson9999 2 months ago
Of course it changes the waveform. However that has nothing to do with whether it is AUDIBLY DIFFERENT or not (it's not, phase changes are only audible WHILE they're changing because a sliding phase shift is the same as a slight pitchbend)
socketryanist 5 months ago
Very nice demo.
metabog 9 months ago
Sinus waves are meaningless since the have no harmonics. They're pure tones. So, no phase shift can be observed among the different frequencies. Music and sounds always contains different frequencies, so any phase shift affects the waveform.
Using a square wave produces the most obvious results on the waveform which was desirable for this demonstration.
LaurentMxSnd 9 months ago 2
Now do it on a sine wave...
Iwasaproblemchild 9 months ago
I have always felt that phase coherence and impulse/transient behavior in audio gear and loudspeakers to be very important. A system capable of a clean phase/transient/impulse response just sounds right to me. Speaker systems that have higher order electrical filters typically sound unnatural to my ears. Most argue that the difference is inaudible but I can hear it under most circumstances. Someone should make a blind test! Thanks for posting this.
TigerLST 1 year ago
can someone tab this out? its beautiful.
triggr357 1 year ago