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Old 28th July 2009   #183
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Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering View Post
In my experience, a polarity tester is very easily confused, even when using the specified test signal. I'm confident that anyone regularly working with those testers will have made the same experience at some point. Feeding it with a much more complex signal, i.e. music (recorded in a room, played back through a speaker array in another room), and expecting to get a reliable results seems very optimistic, to put it mildly.
I think is was established long ago in this thread that the results are a reliable and repeatable 50%.


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