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In Reply to: Interesting? posted by Top Jimmy on May 20, 2003 at 00:44:33:
"I'll bite, based on the assumption that you're trying to tell me that I wouldn't hear a difference while listening to headphones. I still heard a difference. It's not the same as the difference I heard over loudspeakers, but a difference is there nonetheless."Whenever I've tried this with a good (linear) pair of headphones like the Grado HP-2 or BeyerDynamic 931, I could not even tell when the polarity of the DAC was switched from positive to inverted polarity and back. With lesser headphones, which I think distort the signal in one direction of excursion before the other, the difference does become more-obvious. I personally cannot explain why this phenomenon is **much** more noticeable with speakers. (I've actually saved a few people money in *not* buying new equipment after merely changing the absolute polarity of the speakers in their systems, where they then became satisfied with their existing equipment.)
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Follow Ups
- Re: Interesting? - Todd Krieger 09:10:11 05/20/03 (4)
- Let's question his cans? - Top Jimmy 18:12:39 05/20/03 (0)
- "after merely changing the absolute polarity of the speakers" - clarkjohnsen 12:50:26 05/20/03 (2)
- OK, *At* the Speakers... - Todd Krieger 16:14:27 05/20/03 (0)
- Re: "after merely changing the absolute polarity of the speakers" - Victor Khomenko 12:57:20 05/20/03 (0)
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