[BC] Symmetra Peak and stereo...

[Burt I. Weiner]

I've used Symmetra Peaks in the left and right channels out of a 
console, before any processing.  My experience is that if you use two 
of the same models, the phase and mono is well maintained.  It was 
certainly worth the effort and did not affect the summed mono.

Burt

At 10:00 PM 8/13/2006, you wrote:

>Take a look at a square wave after it passes through the box and
>you'll see that the circuit actually introduces phase distortion --
>lots of it -- but that's what reduces the vocal asymmetry.  I first
>learned about the Symmetra-Peak (back when I was in high school) from
>Vince Mangiameli, former CE of WOLF in Syracuse, in a quest to find
>out why his little 1 kW transmitter on 1490 sounded so much better
>than the 5 kW AMs in town.
>
>I have one in my ham station, too -- along with a Kahn "Good-n-Loud"
>(aka the Non-Symmetra-Mod), which makes a waveform asymmetrical again
>(on a controlled basis) by amplifying the positive half with a higher
>gain than the negative half.
>
>Mark
>K3XY

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