Quote Originally Posted by Steve Schell View Post
Whitebroncoii you seem to be refusing to consider my point, that a highly asymmetric, transient waveform cannot be reconstructed by drivers connected in opposite polarity. I never said that "horrible things" would happen, those are your words, though I do sense that you are slipping out a side door with such vague generalization instead of responding to my question. I contend that fidelity to the signal is degraded by this approach compared to what is possible. I have experimented with this phenomenon for years, with many Altec and earlier Lansing systems using stock second order filters. Connecting the drivers in intended (reverse) polarity yields smooth response through the crossover region, at the cost of muddled imaging and degraded transients. Reversing one of the drivers results in a hole in the response at the crossover frequency, but provides far superior soundstaging and transients, where the system becomes far more invisible, or "immediate" if you will. This is especially true if the system polarity agrees with that seen by the microphone(s) at the time of the recording.

I think you hear improvement the way some folks hear improvements from expensive speaker cables. Yes, I am refusing to get into a pissing contest with you.