opaqueice Wrote: 
> I've also decided to ignore his posts, at least until he changes his
> tone, as I don't find they contribute anything to the discussion.  
> 
> On a more interesting subject, I've tried Tom's suggestion of turning
> the speakers around.  Actually, I found this easiest to do with my
> Grado phones.  
> 
> First, to characterize the original difference more, there is a loud
> buzzing sound with both polarities, but underlying it there seems to be
> a lower frequency, more pure-tone sound.  It's the pitch of that
> subdominant sound which changes or seems to change between the two
> polarities.  
> 
> With the phones reversed (each speaker facing away from my ear), it's
> much harder to hear the pitch of that lower sound.  I think I can still
> identify it, and it seems to be the same as with the phones in their
> ordinary position, but I'm really not sure.  If so, that would support
> distortion in the electronics and/or speaker cones over some physical
> effect in the sound waves themselves.
> 
> So this is a bit inconclusive.  I've attached a zipped WAV file with a
> short version of the test file I made, in case anyone else wants to try
> to give this a listen.

Why do you assume facing the speakers away from you will reverse
polarity?


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