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In Reply to: RE: Whatever happened to the "perfect polarity pundit"? posted by genungo on August 28, 2014 at 09:54:25
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With all the "enhancements", processing, sample-rate conversion (relative to the original A/D), and compression in recent recordings, I believe that absolute polarity is a relatively minor problem..... I think hardly anyone would be able to pass an ABX test for polarity inversion, on a phase-correct system, with most of these recordings.
Edits: 08/28/14
a polarity switch in your system, certain properly recorded discs (black or silver) will sound better one way or the other. remotely controlled, it is sometimes striking.
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My friend has a polarity switch, and I can easily hear the difference on many classical music recordings--when it makes a difference, I notice more "air" around the instruments and overall better imaging. I'm hardly a golden-ears type, but switching polarity isn't hard to hear.
Not really hard to hear, but when speaker system have drivers in mixed polaritiesflilping switch can help some portions of the FR and worsen others. This leads many listeners to simply give up...
Edits: 09/01/14
"a polarity switch in your system, certain properly recorded discs (black or silver) will sound better one way or the other. remotely controlled, it is sometimes striking."
Totally agree.... But there are fewer and fewer recordings being put out that would yield such result. (I think roughly half the recordings put out in recent time have "mixed" absolute polarity. One performer is recorded inverted relative to another.)
The only time I get hung up on polarity nowadays is with acoustic recordings. Jazz or classical. With pop and rock recordings, I only worry about the vocalists or drums.
Yeah...
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