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RE: Automatic Detection / Manipulation of Polarity

Oh, are you ever dating yourself (and me too) as it's been many a decade since SSB was done with baseband phase-shift networks. I'm thinking about your AM comment, it would at least give you a higher average power simply due to the asymmetrical modulation. But back to audio...

I suspect that there isn't a singular answer to the polarity question. It may be a combination of the recording techniques interacting with the user's speakers and the user's brain. You well know the positions:
-It's hogwash.
-It should be a systematically controlled parameter.
-Just give me a button and shut up.
And their vocal advocates. I fall somewhere in the latter two.

Having not seriously looked into it I don't really know just how much variations in loudspeakers affect our perception of polarity but I think quite a lot. If there was enough consistency among loudspeakers and in recording techniques it would seem a tractable issue. Lacking that the button becomes best and a bright button that remembers our druthers, brilliant.

Must be bedtime, alliteration is settling in...

Rick


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