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Antigrunge |
Ca 50% of recordings are out of polarity, either in the recording or studio editing process. Adding a switch to change playback polarity leads to significant improvements in sound quality and is therefor highly desirable
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Antigrunge
Yet another pitch for this. With ever improving sound quality of the sense app this becomes even more audible when polarity is reversed, as it often is…
Stephen Healy
Status changed to: Open
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and it does not influence the bit perfect fylosophy
Antigrunge
inverting polarity helps since about half of all recordings are out of polarity and on highly resolving systems the effect is quite audible. Changing polarity in the digital domain is a no-brainer, doing it after the Dac is nearly impossible.
Stephen Healy
Merged with: Change polarity
Stephen Healy
The difficulty here is we would need to make a different decision about our bitperfect philosophy so far, and begin entertaining the idea DSP options. It would not end with polarity; there's also channel balance, room EQ, parametric equalizers, crossfade, DSD dB boosts, upsampling, replay gain and many others. We've no immediate plans to change the more 'purist' approach we have so far, but will of course keep these ideas open to discussion.
Antigrunge
A little reminder: wouldn‘t it be nice….
Antigrunge
Hi Nuno, any news on this?
Nuno Vitorino
Indeed the player software does have this option but the difficulty is how to operate this. It's essentially a trial and error operation to check which polarity is right for each track as AFAIK there is no automated way to determine. It also implies restarting the track that's being played from the beginning. How would you see this feature being used?
Antigrunge
Nuno, I used it as an in-play toggle switch in puremusic. There is obviously no predetermined way before the track starts, but toggling in-play makes the right polarity immediately audible
Nuno Vitorino
Status changed to: Under review
Antigrunge
This is a minor add-on with big effect. Computer based systems such as Puremusic offer this as standard and I really encourage Nuno to experiment with the issue.