Am I understanding this correctly - you get a 6dB gain shift when
inverting polarity?

The only way I can imagine this could happen (assuming the Inguz is
ONLY inverting polarity) in a tri-amped active system is if you have
inadvertantly inverted the polarity of (both of) the midrange drivers
so they are out of phase with the treble and bass. Depending on the
crossover slopes being shallow, you would get odd
cancellation/reinforcement effects around the crossover regions...mind
you, having gone through that thought process I now realise that
inverting the polarity of the whole signal before the x-over would
still leave you out-of-phase so to speak.

There is a (rather tedious) way to see what is going on. Listen to the
Inguz 6dB boost version/polarity inversion, turn everything off and
flip the polarity of all (6) of your speaker cables...does the boost
disappear? If so I have no idea what is going on - my guess is that the
boost will still be there (thus proving that absolute polarity cannot
affect gain as we know) and that the software is really applying the
boost somehow.

You really need an SPL meter to progress this - at least a 6dB boost is
pretty "obvious".


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