In Reply to: RE: you just need a good recording of drums and a good hifi posted by Dry Ginger on December 5, 2013 at 14:44:28:
According to George Louis,"The polarity designations are as stated only if the majority of CD manufactures are making CDs in correct polarity (N), but if the opposite is true, then the polarity designations should be reversed (R) but the relative polarities of the listings won’t change. Until it(s) know(n) whether it’s the CDs that are being made inverted or the CD players that are being made inverted as described in 30 Years of Digital and the 92% Solution, we won’t know what the actual polarity of the media is but only that an N designated CD will play in polarity on approximately 92% of CD players and an R designated CD will (play) inverted on approximately 92% of CD players. You may read about how the 92% figure was determined at 30 Years of Digital and the 92% Solution. You may determine if a CD player is one of the 92% that plays most CDs inverted, by playing CDs to hear which polarity which the vast majority playback in. That assumes that you know that the rest the playback chain doesn’t invert polarity, but even you don’t know the net polarity of the rest of the system, at least you’ll know how to play most CDs in absolute polarity."
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Follow Ups
- RE: you just need a good recording of drums and a good hifi - geoffkait 12/5/1315:17:45 12/5/13 (8)
- Hilarious quote. - Dave Pogue 09:39:45 12/8/13 (0)
- RE: you just need a good recording of drums and a good hifi - rick_m 07:54:03 12/6/13 (4)
- RE: you just need a good recording of drums and a good hifi - geoffkait 08:01:31 12/6/13 (3)
- In the immortal words of AA's former resident polarity expert........ - Rick W 09:32:04 12/6/13 (2)
- RE: In the immortal words of AA's former resident polarity expert........ - geoffkait 14:42:47 12/7/13 (0)
- The issue.with Johnsen - unclestu 12:46:34 12/6/13 (0)
- It's funny - unclestu 23:16:51 12/5/13 (1)
- Memory fail. - geoffkait 05:24:38 12/6/13 (0)