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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Finding Correct AC Polarity for each Component by Amir on 2022-05-13 
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I think lower chassis voltage does not give better sound in all audio systems.I do not why but Some audio systems have better sound with higher chassis voltage . I lost my sound for more than six month only for adjusting ac polarity for lower chassis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #984: Violently disagree! by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Folks, in case you care to learn the truth of the matter, AC Polarity is the subject of Chapter 7.5, pages 63-66. Its connection to acoustic polarity is established there too. That Romy should so boldly assert otherwise, l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #986: Onwards by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:Folks, in case you care to learn the truth of the matter, AC Polarity is the subject of Chapter 7.5, pages 63-66. Its connection to acoustic polarity is established there too. That Romy should so boldl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #993: Look at the record by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-29 
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"You mistakably took roundness but it was nothing but confidence and luck of my interest to contaminate the thread with another introduction of acoustic absolute phase." Folks, I invite you to look at the record. I introduced AC plug polarity and whe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #987: OK, acoustic polarity is something that makes Universe to expend, are ... by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Thanks for the lecture on material I've been closely acquainted with for thirty years. But please don't try to dodge the issue, viz., that you erroneously said AC plug polarity has "nothing to do with The Wood Effect". The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #987: OK, acoustic polarity is something that makes Universe to expend, are ... by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Thanks for the lecture on material I've been closely acquainted with for thirty years. But please don't try to dodge the issue, viz., that you erroneously said AC plug polarity has "nothing to do with The Wood Effect". The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #967: AC polarity and Bybee crap. by Romy the Cat on 2011-12-26 
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[quote user="steverino"] You have an unusual situation because you have so many dimmers (one type of device). [/quote]Well, the unusual situation is only as experimentation. In the house I bough pretty much etch light switch had a dimmer. I have ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #212: AC Polarity by DSH on 2008-12-27 
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Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Polarity Tester – a must have for any horn person by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-07 
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Srajan La Pergola just announced that Danish company “FMJ Audio” began to make an acoustic phase tester. An acoustic phase tester is absolutely mandatory thing for anyone who uses horns. If a person use horns and has no ways to objectively recognize ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: In particular check capacitor polarity by JJ Triode on 2022-01-02 
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If C10 is connected backwards there could well be a large leakage current through it. It may also have been damaged if this is the case, requiring its replacement....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Use absolute polarity as an early speakers test. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-02 
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Checking if you playback can discriminate absolute polarity is very simple and very effective way to find out if you acoustic system is not fundamentally faulty. Flip the polarity and monitor the result. If you did not experience dramatic changes at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #980: Responses on AC Polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:It does not take care of itself (what does?) and following the code doesn't get you there either…. Indeed, it is current leakage... but measured by the difference in potential. Clark, you a bit simplis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #995: Polarity Phase by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-29 
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"Meanwhile, I suppose we mostly tend to think of "phase" as a 180 proposition, +/-, either/or." Not I, sir! Phase is a matter of degrees. Polarity is a total flip, which is why it's a far better word for the two conditions under discussion.So let's p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #219: It's not in the AC polarity by DSH on 2008-12-29 
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[quote user="DSH"]Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis[/quote]I tried all the options on the polarity last day and it appeared this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Absolute polarity? by Andy Simpson on 2008-09-19 
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Hi Collin,[quote user="CO"]Hello Andy,I like your recordings although i am listening on headphones which i normally do not use. My Main setup is not operational right now.They do sound clean, clear and dynamic.[/quote]If you get your main setup opera...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Polarity? by anthony on 2020-08-13 
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[quote user="anthony"]I have brought the Placette Active Linestage back into the room.[/quote]This comparison is proving more difficult than anticipated.  Inconsistent results between subject tracks have given me some doubt on just what I have been h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Polarity Tester: actually… by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-07 
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Actually, the above mentioned “Phase-it” devise has on-board “generator” that sends out the pulses and they it looks like the pulses of the high voltage, the speaker level pulses. I do not find it convenient and I do not know if the “Phase-it” devise...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Polarity checker, for convenience by tuga on 2009-11-25 
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For those seeking convenience or the plain lazy there's an interesting and very affordable gadget from Van den Hul: POLARITY CHECKERWorks without a battery, thus is always ready for use ! Its liquid crystal display safely senses and indicates the v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Polarity by noviygera on 2012-03-07 
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I think I figured it out. Capacitor polarity. I reversed the polarity (leads are black and red) and sound changed. Now it sounds closer to what I am looking for, with better transients. Not as good as the digital crossover in the transient department...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1088: Plug polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2013-01-24 
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After reading this thread I can't help but wonder whether y'all are familiar with the concept of AC polarity. The topic has been addressed in numerous locations (most thoroughly in Bound for Sound), but perhaps not recently. In short, which way the p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Finding Correct AC Polarity for each Component by Amir on 2022-05-13 
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I think lower chassis voltage does not give better sound in all audio systems.I do not why but Some audio systems have better sound with higher chassis voltage . I lost my sound for more than six month only for adjusting ac polarity for lower chassis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Correct AC Polarity by Jim Aud by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-24 
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CORRECT AC POLARITY June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up "I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Always check power-line polarity. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-10 
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There are some information here and here, particularly among those who knows, how the misbalance of the power polarity between the components of your systems can screw sound. Certainly the auditable benefits are very substantial and anyone who power ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1474: The AC polarity problem by clarkjohnsen on 2015-11-23 
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This may have been mentioned already. . . if so, it escaped me. But here's the thing: Each component has its own AC chassis leakage characteristic. This can be measured, and lining every component up by the same polarity produces less noise & hum...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1649: Plug Polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2018-09-02 
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This trick of disconnecting all the grounds works, depending. . . I am not a happy or unhappy, as the case may be, PP owner, but I know this to be the case anyway.Now, is everyone aware that which way the plug is mounted in the socket make a differen...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Injection channel with WRONG polarity in my case is not good. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-24 
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Romy, What happens when you use the injection channel with inverted polarity?[/quote] Unsuccessful. My Injection Channel (Tannoy 10” Red) is too with bandwidth and even at minus 10db is “talks” with HF channel of Macondo, which do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: I checked the polarity of C10 by Domidaw on 2022-01-03 
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And this capacitor is connected as shown in the photo. its minus goes to mass, its plus goes via R21 to the B + tap in the OTP transformer.  I waited for the resistance to stabilize, which started at 2 million ohms and stopped at 42 million ohms ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Re: Sined or sinned by hagtech on 2006-07-28 
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[quote user="romy"]I have quite rudimentary and not very well performing generator [/quote]That's what I thought.  I see a point at the tips of the sinewave, a dead giveaway to a ICL8038 style waveform generator.  I wanted to see the input ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #219: It's not in the AC polarity by DSH on 2008-12-29 
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[quote user="DSH"]Thanks Romy. On the AC polarity do you mean playing with the player/amp polarity or with the PP one? I always try to have all devices to be in phase.Denis[/quote]I tried all the options on the polarity last day and it appeared this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #980: Responses on AC Polarity by clarkjohnsen on 2011-12-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  clarkjohnsen wrote:It does not take care of itself (what does?) and following the code doesn't get you there either…. Indeed, it is current leakage... but measured by the difference in potential. Clark, you a bit simplis...
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