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Rogue Audio Cronus .... reverse polarity ?

Just for fun, I reversed the + and - cables on the speaker end of both speakers, and the music seems to sound a lot better. Is it possible that the amp's polarity is reversed at the speaker connectors, so that the amp sounds better with the speaker end of the cables also reversed ? or is it just my imagination? Have any other Cronus owners tried this with noticeable results ?
adam18
plato
1,543 posts
 
It's very possible... Either that or the recordings you played were recorded in the wrong polarity. Why not e-mail Rogue Audio; I'm sure it's not a secret.

The odd thing is (at least for me) that in my experience tube gear seems to accent polarity differences compared to solid-state gear where the effects seem a bit more subtle.
mezmo
516 posts
 
Ok, admittedly of marginal use, but I remember when I was running a Rogue preamp that something in my system was intentionally designed to invert phase, such that I'd deliberately switched back at the speaker connections to get around it. Not sure that it was the 99, but I seem to think it was. Definitely check with Rogue, Mark is top notch (or likely in the manual?), but it may well be very much on purpose -- and as Plato noted, certainly not a secret.
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
My Rogue 120's do not invert phase.....don't know about your product (but I doubt it)............probably the recording.

Dave
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