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Old 7th July 2009   #118
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Originally Posted by clarkjohnsen View Post
Again, for the umpteenth time, although I fear by now it will never penetrate:

SMART System 2000 Sound Check from Smart Cinerma Sound Products
It seems to me, judging by this page: EZ Phase that the device can indeed test the absolute polarity of your system by using a test signal on the provided CD and using the hand held device. (Assuming they are not outright lying in the marketing). Nowhere on that page does it say it can test the absolute polarity of a random recording.

Have you been using this device on your collection of CDs and LPs and getting 50/50 (random) results and then concluding that CDs (or whatever) must have inverted polarity 50% of the time?


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