On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Stephen Prior <eastbrantw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... polarity is to do with the direction in which the loudspeaker cone > moves for a given direction of > audio frequency current (Fleming's left hand rule etc.). So if two > speakers have the same "polarity" then they will both move forwards or > backwards at the same time... =========== I realize this discussion is kinda pointless and not worth prolonging, but nonetheless... it seems that if both speakers go in and out at the same time, the resulting sound waves would be in phase; whereas if one speaker goes out when the other goes in, the sound waves would be considered to be out of phase (i.e. the compressions and the rarefactions would cancel). So at least in the case of a pair of speakers sitting side-by-side and fed with the same audio, switching the so-called "polarity" of one would indeed change its phase relative to the other by 180 deg. Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
