Friends,
There is now several threads spread throughout the circle of people claiming that the ST-10 outputs are really inverted in phase, according to the some 'just because that is how they do it in Asia' (not the most compelling argument), according to others because that is what their room DSP equipment is telling them (this is now a more credible source).
As I said before, this is not trivial: yes, absolute phase is (most likely, but there is debate) not detectable. True enough! But some people add sub-woofers, other speakers, do bi-amping, etc., etc., etc. So there are dozens of situations where knowing the absolute phase is crucial!!!
Jason replied (very succinctly): I recommend you stick to specs.
Probably good advice, but it takes very little equipment (for those who have it) to actually prove or disprove this: is the absolute phase inverted or non-inverted on the ST-10 outputs?
Please, if anyone has or can get a hold of the equipment, help us run some tests. If not, lets figure this out! Lets try and hook some PC distortion software and input back the output to the computer, obviously making sure the output is low enough to not blow the computer inputs. This probably requires some signal attenuation or some other intermediate device?
Ideally, would NuPrime (which I'm sure not only have all the equipment, but probably knows this already) help measure this out and give us a technically definitive answer (perhaps even nice graph charts, I don't know, something other than: stick to specs), specially now that there are several diagnostic equipment that are claiming inverting phase on the AMP.
Thanks a lot, best regards,
Rafa.