High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.

“On a purely random basis that means that digital media and files are heard in the wrong polarity approximately 85% of the time and either 92% wrong or correct when audio systems are set to a fixed playback polarity.”

>>>>>That’s the second time you wrote that. Can you explain what you mean by that? It kind of doesn’t make sense. And why would analog be correct Polarity 99% of the time yet digital be incorrect Polarity most of the time.... or am I misinterpreting your statements?

@audiolouis

You make a lot of very verbose claims about audio polarity. Can you point out a specific track or better yet, CD which you feel should make this perfectly obvious to anyone?

Preferably something on Tidal.

Next, are you stating that that you have solved the Vinyl sounds better issue, and that with proper polarity, digital will sound as good or better than Vinyl?


Thanks so much,

Erik

velveteen

what other gear including cabling is in your system?  Happy Listening!

Stereophile F...d Up on their review of the EAR Acute Classic, beginning with a defective unit (overdriving inputs with a 6 volt output) that sounded terrible, bright and brittle.  They did not review the prior units. 

Everyone else reviewed various models and found them exquisetly analoglike WITH NO HIGH END DISTORTIONS OR BRIGHTNESS.  Since I've owned the Acute 1 for 13 years using especially rich sounding tubes, I do not hear brightness.  I've heard the Acute III and the Acute Classic.  NO BRIGHTNESS even with stock tubes.  These are great sounding CD players.  I've included several other Classic reviews previously.  No mention that it sounds bright or with a peaked treble.  I would said so as I've heard so many CD players (probably 100 by now) in my home, at friends homes and at audio shows.  The EAR is one sweet sounding player, maybe too forgiving in the highs.

As to inverted polarity, I've written several times in these forums concerning recording polarities which can often be wrong, especially for multiple instruments.  These can be heard in many Mercury Living Presence recordings of pop engineered by Stan Ricker who I had several conversations with.   So, LPs can be way out of correct polarity.  I have Brasil 66 LPs where the first issue is in correct polarity and the second pressing is in 180 degree wrong polarity.

Also, CDs and digital recordings are not usually in incorrect polarity unless they were recorded that way or remastered incorrectly.  I have noticed some of my Heifetz/Piatagorsky CDs have reverse polarity on some tracks.  

Overall, most of my recordings have good polarity (correct rather than reversed) and have strong imaging, just like high end fuses by SR have a correct and incorrect polarity.