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Take a single label,

in this case, Deutsche Grammophon, and leave SACDs out of the equation (Are there any DG SACDs?). And understand that I'm a total technical illiterate.

It's generally agreed by the people who make the lists that DGs were recorded in "inverted" polarity. That's certainly how I hear it. But DG CDs played on my system in "normal" polarity are quite listenable, LPs less so, and R-R tapes even less. I have a Martha Argerich tape of Prokofief and Ravel soncertos that sounded so harsh and veiled I was copnvinced it was defective. Switching the speaker leads provided an almost miraculous "fix." It turns out that most classical tapes (mine at least) sound much better played back in inverted polarity -- the DGs, RCAs, Mercury's, Londons, Angels, Vanguards, but not the Columbias, Philips, and a few others. For what it's worth.

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