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The two speakers being out of polarity. For example, was doing the
live sound for a play that featured lots of live music. The fella
doing the sound effects (recorded) wanted to use the house sound
system instead of putting the SFX through my system. When he turned
it on, the speakers were out of polarity (so entrained to say "out of
phase" though) so it all sounded wierd. Since this guy was the one
who installed the system, I mentioned it and went on to feed his SFX
through my system, and hope he'll correct it later on...
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On Oct 20, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
I am one of those persons whose eyes tear up when presented with
out of
phase stereo speakers.
That of course is a different matter.
I have been astounded to walk in a room and hear the effect of out of
polarity speakers being used in "professional" situations, even home
systems.
Now I'm confused. Do you mean phase or polarity here? If the former,
then a
simple switch of one will rectify the situation. If the latter, then the
speakers (or something) must be switched to accommodate variant source
material.