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You must always change BOTH channels to reverse Absolute Polarity, otherwise you are changing the channel phase relationship and your stereo image will be inside-out.

Just to be clear, the correct absolute polarity is when a positive-going wavefront on the recording is reproduced as a positive-going wavefront from the speaker to the listener. Sometimes (but may be difficult to see) this is visible on the woofers with a bass drum "whack" in a classical recording or the kick drum in a non-classical recording. The leading edge of the "whack" should make the speaker move forward, NOT pull inward.


Best Regards,

Michael Bishop
Recording Engineer


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  • always BOTH - Michael Bishop 05:52:59 03/24/07 (1)


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