Crossing Left and Right Speakers

@decooney 

Yes my QS pre is reversed phase and my dac is switched, so....everything is in phase. My source is out of phase, the signal goes to the pre which has switched phased, so now the phase is IN, it leaves my pre and goes to my amps and the speaks IN phase. If I couldnt tell when my speakers were out of phase, I would have no business listening to music. 

The issue is not about phase, at all, in any way whatsoever. Infact there is no issue, it was a statement I heard in an youtube video about switching speakers. Nothing at all to do with polarity or phase.

@newbee 

"Since the OP is loosing his center image "

OMG, you guys are trolling me. It's quite funny and I thank you.

Just in case.....I have zero issue with my center stage or any and all stages. There is nothing wrong wi......

ahhh, never mind

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@zazouswing 

"By flipping the channels in an audio piece you are familiar with, could the brain be more preoccupied with trying to the push the left back into the right channel? The relatively small imperfections,"

Interesting idea. Yes I tried it with music Im not terribly familiar with. The drum issue is funny because some drummers are left handed....

I was a professional drummer for some time and I always notice the reversed drummer, but as I mentioned it is true with unfamiliar pieces. The sound is quite specific too, doesn't sound like being out of phase.

An example I found in a familiar piece was that the bass lines went way back in the center image, very quiet, which would happen if it were out of phase, but it was different, it was physically farther back in the background.

Still the make question is why? why not just a mirror image.

Your Idea makes a lot of sense but it does happen with unfamiliar pieces.

T

@gregdude 

"For example  someone walking across the stage from l to r would appear to start in the center right walk off stage to the right"

I would think he would just go from R to L.

OP, FWIW, I misread and attributed to you statements about soundstage aberrations experienced early in this thread. Obviously I thought you were experimenting with the equipment and getting the odd results. My bad. I should have read the post more carefully. I should have been talking to jimmy2615 as he was doing the experimenting that I attributed to you.