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Speaker *Polarity* (sorry autocorrect)
                      >:( 

This is sort of a poll question for anyone to chime in. In general, I believe people on this forum have a good ear for finer details.

Can you tell the difference if the polarity of *both* speakers are reversed?

I remember a thread from way back where someone shared an experience of a vendor at an audio convention that deliberately reversed the speaker input connection?

...Yes, no, depends(please clarify).

If yes, how would you describe the difference.
Thanks in advance:-)

recluse

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oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 

Take up croquet. As long as we don't see a Yoko Ono, thread, we're good.

Yes, and night and day.

Everything I wire inside the box is in phase too. No wiring out of phase for better measurements, no cheating.. lol

Regards
oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
It's all good, I know about a few of the recording tricks too. Hope we don't have to start listening to records backwards again, "Paul is Dead" LOL

It's something I prefer, wiring in phase. I use planars/ribbons 300 hz >
Round speakers 300 hz <, in a 4 way... and/with subs.  

My older Macs have, L,R, reverse, ect.

I've seen a lot of speakers wired out of phase when I was looking, I quit about 25 years ago. I knew something sounded weak, bad, or both. Normally mids were washed out by doing that.. Same time of super hot tweeter. Actually need tone control in cables to fix it.  Yea, old school here.  BUT I do use a processor for 300 hz <.. Easy peasy for phase correction, timing, delay, and thresholds, if needed.  Servo bass same way, in phase, but it has a processor, and a step baffle, no phase issues.

Regards
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