mbwilson111
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Yep. Most of the time you have to guess what the other guy means, when there is talk about polarity and phase.
For me "reverse or inverted polarity" (the one I spoke of) is simply switching +/- on both sides. This makes no difference to the sound and like I said, it's more an OCD thing for me.
Yes, thisis the one I do not worry about.
Then there is "out of polarity", where +/- on one side are in different order compared to the other side, which definitely creates sound problems, since the soundwaves "cancel each other out".
Then there is "out of phase", which is when the sound of one channel has a time shift.
Ok, now you have confused me on this one. What you are calling out of polarity is what I call out of phase...as do other I think. Also when the sound waves are canceling each other out there is still sound... the horrible sound that people complain about when they get an iem that is out of phase (or they have attached the cable wrong). Many people just assume the iem is not good.
Not sure what the time shift thing is that you are talking about but I don't think we should get into too much detail or we will be banished to the sound science forum