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Originally Posted by clarkjohnsen  Are you discussing the Chesky disc I referenced, the one mastered by Mr. Katz? Or just any old disc? |
The number one in the chesky sampler and test disk series. It's hard to argue using ears against ears, but I do have a quite nifty listening room and it's no doubt in my ears - most of the sounds on the first tracks does sound fuller and better and more real with the listening path in non-inverting mode. Perhaps your ears are different?
Had a look at the trumpets. On
this page, two pictures of typical trumpet waveforms can be found.
The D waveform in this picture is trumpet:
and the E waveform in this picture is a french horn:
Notice that they both have a fast shift from positive to negative, a rising slope from negative to positive with some informative wiggles, another fast drop from positive to negative, etc. The waveform on track 14 on the Chesky disk, the correct polarity, looks the same. The tone also sounds more real, a bit fuller. If your system consistently sounds better on track 16 than on track 14, perhaps you should try to use the polarity tester as it's intended - with the test tones.
