Power cord and Sony SCD-1

Gmorris, measure the AC potential on the chassis of the SCD-1 in standard and reversed polarity and advise which has the lowest potential....All we have measured have had reversed line and neutral which screws up venue information for the entire system....

I concur with Bob the polarity is reversed on the Sony. Buy a cheater plug and listen both ways you will hear the differences.

Does anyone know, is this true on the reversed polarity on the power cord with other Sony SACD players, like the 9000es?

Tek, the best thing to do is measure the AC potential with any new piece of gear as just need a cheap multimeter, decent earth ground and a cheater plug....Go to www.boundforsound.com and print the article for checking this under "tweak of the week"....The problem manifests itself in poor imaging as all the gear is hooked togther via interconnects and just one piece with high AC potential will mess up the whole system....If the AC is backwards you can attack it two ways; get inside the unit and swap line and neutral or order a cord which will fix the problem....Lots of folks don't like playing around inside their gear so I sell quite a few reversed polarity power cords....This is the sort of thing dealers used to check before most of them just started selling sealed boxes......

Not all Sony SCD1 had a problem, my does not and another owner I know does not, we switched ac to check, switched sound became dead, no depth and little width.

To many rumors not enough fact on the web at times. Also the Sony is balanced.