Rogue Audio Cronus .... reverse polarity ?

Rogue has inverted phase in some of their products to eliminate a step in the signal path - when necessary (or possible).

One of my Rogue pieces did this but I forget which...

In fact, the 99 manual suggests reversing the polarity at the speaker end.

My M-180s do not reverse polarity (well at least according to Stereophile).

Since there was very little consistency in the way polarity was handled when our stuff was recorded in the first place, and since many speakers do not maintain polarity coherence in the way they are wired (making polarity changes inaudible or nearly so), you don't gain much by switching speaker wires. CDs/LPs/tapes were recorded in inverted, non-inverted, and mixed polarity. If you can clearly detect polarity changes, you're best off with a preamp (like my Aesthetix Calypso) that lets you switch polarity from the remote.

Thanks for the responses so far. I'll get in touch with Mark @ Rogue, but before I do, I just wanted to hear what my fellow Audiogoners have to say. Happy Listenig everybody.

The Vandersteens are coherent, though.

I know of one famous recording that is supposedly effected by polarity inversion: Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall. I wonder if there's a list of more such recordings around.