[Elecraft] K3 Beta 5r10 and LINK

[Walter Underwood]

This bad terminology has been around for a long time. My dad’s 1960’s Sherwood amp (maybe an S-5000?) had a switch on the front labeled “PHASE NORM - REV”. That was to save you the trouble of reversing the speaker wires after you got them all connected to the screw terminals. Just choose  which ever setting had more bass.

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On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Clive Lorton <clive at thelortons.co.uk> wrote:

> On 16/02/2015 19:27, Jim Brown wrote:
>> You (and Heil) are using the word "phase" incorrectly when you talk about "reversing" it. What that switch is doing is reversing the POLARITY. Polarity has two values -- normal and inverted. Polarity is the same for all frequencies. Bob Heil, who claims to be the audio guru should know better -- the word polarity has been used in this manner in pro audio for nearly 40 years. 
> I understand the word polarity and I understand the word phase after 40 years in the audio industry I've never known a loudspeaker (or other transducer) to be out of polarity.
> 
> From Wikipedia: *"Phase difference* is the difference, expressed in degrees or time, between two waves having the same frequency and referenced to the same point in time.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_%28waves%29#cite_note-Ballou2005-1> Two oscillators that have the same frequency and no phase difference are said to be *in phase*. Two oscillators that have the same frequency and different phases have a phase difference, and the oscillators are said to be *out of phase* with each other."
> 
> Clive G8POC
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