Will preamp manufacturers tell you if the model is phase inverse?


I'm looking at the Primaluna Prologue Premium and the Rogue Rp-1. Neither manual says anything about switching speaker terminals. The Cary preamps DO say to switch terminals
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John Atkinson always mention absolute/inverted polarity with his Measurements :
Rogue Rp-1 phono stage preserved absolute polarity and line inputs inverted absolute polarity
https://www.stereophile.com/content/rogue-audio-rp-1-preamplifier-measurements
What i never understood is if the circuit inverts polarity why doesn’t a manufacturer simply reverse the leads heading to the component’s output so that once leaving the component polarity isn’t reversed any longer.

some preamp may be easy to do like this, most may require an extra stage.
I just heard back from Nick at Rogue. The RP-1 and the RP-5 Both invert phase on ALL inputs (including phono).
 
So Rogue told you the RP1 inverts both line and phono, but JA's measurements in Stereophile showed that the phono does not invert?  Seems odd to have a manufacturer give you the wrong specs.
although phono stage preserved absolute polarity and line inputs stage inverted absolute polarity, the preamp output still inverted absolute polarity!