If buying from a maker? Just have them to un-invert the phase in the unit itself. I had this done to mine so I wouldn't have to swap speaker cables.
Phase Inverted DAC fix - w/o flipping spkr cables?
Some of the DACs I'm looking at are phase inverting - I do not really want to reverse my speaker cables because I have other compents that are not phase inverting hooked up.
Could I flip the leads on one of the interconnects? Would have to be cut open and resoldered I suppose - is this in any way dangerous or just plain stupid? If its this easy I would have expected someone to have invented a reverse phase IC by now.
And of course this brings up the question - are we really talking about phase or polarity? Reversing speaker cables is really just swapping the polarity - not truly the same thing as phase. So when they say a DAC is reverse phase - do they really just mean reverse polarity in one channel?
Polarity is a binary concept - pos and neg and that's it. Whereas phase is really a continuum of degreed offsets in the time domain. Or so I've read...
Could I flip the leads on one of the interconnects? Would have to be cut open and resoldered I suppose - is this in any way dangerous or just plain stupid? If its this easy I would have expected someone to have invented a reverse phase IC by now.
And of course this brings up the question - are we really talking about phase or polarity? Reversing speaker cables is really just swapping the polarity - not truly the same thing as phase. So when they say a DAC is reverse phase - do they really just mean reverse polarity in one channel?
Polarity is a binary concept - pos and neg and that's it. Whereas phase is really a continuum of degreed offsets in the time domain. Or so I've read...