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RE: IM, absolute polarity, and recording

Posted by psn (A) on November 20, 2021 at 12:33:37

In Reply to: IM, absolute polarity, and recording posted by psn on November 19, 2021 at 13:08:24:

geoffkait confirmed my suspicion; no polarity studio recording standard.

However, now another question arises (still wondering if there is ever a real reason to swap speaker leads and reverse polarity)...

You have all certainly seen a picture of the scope display of a sine wave exhibiting 2nd harmonic distortion from a single ended triode output - asymmetric, the upper half curved to be more circular and the lower half extended and curved more sharply. I have never seen it displayed inverted, but this choice of orientation would apply to all signals at the speaker.

Anyone using SET amps know anything about differences in sound of music depending on whether the rounded or extended half of the wave is on the room-side of the driven element?

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