Now move to either side of, and back and forth of the loudspeaker, in big dramatic sweeps. After all it’s big bass waves we are listening to here. Envision the size of full on North Shore surf, moving at the speed of sound, impinging, disrupting, moving through and bouncing off all the boundaries in your home. Yes, bass waves are big.

…to concern yourself with how the snare drum was recorded, and the rest of the drum kit, the vocals, the strings, brass, keys… forget it, at this point you know nothing of the absolute phase relations of the recording and very likely a waste of your time to consider; a rabbit hole long abandoned by rabbits.

So what does it mean to have an absolute polarity recording, of Eagle-Woman playing the Navajo log drum? It would mean that the recording in your hand will cause positive voltage correlative to the original acoustic events compression of air…

What bears and in which woods? …Let’s take a page out of Harry Olson’s book: Music, Physics and Engineering. Imagine a balloon inflated and tied. Inside the balloon the air pressure is higher than ambient…

Nearly all of us want full, rich, big, round sound, with a stereophonic sound-field that is swim-through-it dense—we want realistic and expansive.

Loading resistors allow Zu loudspeaker users to experiment in ways most other speaker owners cannot.

While I think the majority of us audio freaks would be better off, and get better sound, just sitting on the *it just does* fence…