Tweakers' Asylum

Posted by Pooge (A) on September 10, 2007 at 18:27:05

In Reply to: RE: Remote-controlled absolute polarity switch posted by soulvibrations on September 09, 2007 at 13:12:08

My Adcom CD player from the late 80's had a remote controlled polarity switch. It operated in the digital domain so it was still available when used as a transport. Proper polarity was clearly audible in most recordings, not so obvious in some, and inaudible in others. Alas, the player's caps aged and started leaking. I miss having this feature. However, I found that newer recordings tend to have proper polarity a larger percent of the time than those CDs that replace my old albums. It gets even more difficult to decide when different mikes in the recording are both of proper polarity and inverse on the same cut. One example of this is the song "Amie" by Pure Prairie League. The vocal is out of phase, but the musicians are OK. Pick your poison.