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Originally Posted by philip
no thats fine if you like to work that way. But the problem is there is no right or wrong with polarity, so even if you change polarity and it sounds better to you, this does not mean the polarity is "right".
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That's not true. There is a MEASURABLE right or wrong, and it can be tested. There are some instruments which are known to produce definitive assymetrical waveforms. One of them is a muted trumpet, which has a distinctive negative-going peak. The other is the initial attack waveform of a bass drum.
So there is a "right", there is a "correct" which can be compared with nature and if the wrong way sounds better to you, then you are wrong! Objectively.
Why did they bother to invent polarity testers? (it could be argued to assist in the building of multi-way loudspeakers). Regardless, the polarity of a loudspeaker can be measured objectively with a polarity tester. So the phenomenon is scientifically measurable, it's simply debatable to what extent it is audible.
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