Trainwreck Liverpool Polarity

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Bombacaototal
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Trainwreck Liverpool Polarity

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Hi all, I have a question regarding the Liverpool amps. Based on the uneven number of stages present in the amp, the signal will be out of phase with a standard speaker wiring. I am wondering if Ken addressed this by any means, or if this was "part of the sound"? I am slowly getting to speed with Ken's works but have not yet come across this specific topic
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Were isolated speaker jacks used?
If not, not much can be done about the polarity inversion, so from that it might be inferred that it wasn’t of any interest.
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Re: Trainwreck Liverpool Polarity

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You can just swap the leads at the speaker and use whichever polarity you prefer.
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Re: Trainwreck Liverpool Polarity

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martin manning wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:39 am You can just swap the leads at the speaker and use whichever polarity you prefer.
Yes indeed, I was just wondering what was Ken's approach, did he swap it in order for things to be back in phase or did he leave them out of phase
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