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There has been a lot of folks who get confused....

over the use of the terms polarity and phase. To keep it simple, for your purposes 'inverted' is the key word. All 'inverted' means is that you have changed the negative and positive of both channels identically. Whether you say 'phase' or 'polarity' the result is the same.

FWIW, The other use of the term 'phase' pops up when the change from negative to positive is made at the speakers (or amp) on only one channel and then the system is referred to as being 'out of phase'. The latter is very easy to hear, in fact if you can't hear the difference, oh well. The effect of inverted phase/polarity is much more subtle and whether you hear it or not depends not only on you listening experience but on whether or not the recording itself was really 'in phase' to begin with.


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