Do drivers behave much differently pushing vs. pulling? I'm probably not using the right terminology here, but I'm sure you know what i mean. People can't *hear* phase in itself. But if i sent in two identical signals with reversed polarity into a speaker, would i be able to measure a difference (besides for the polarity, of course).
It seems to me that as far as fidelity goes, a speaker should be able to do anything negative that it can do positive -- after all, it's going to be pulling in half the time.
Feel free to get technical on my ass.

- jacob