Cartridge polarity?


Yesterday I was placing my ZYX cart on another headshell. Somehow I reversed the red/green wires. The sound changed in these ways: separation increased substantially, vocals wandered more to one side and when they were centered, they were less focused, bass decreased in impact but soundstaging increased phenomenally especially depth-wise. When I re-connected the wires correctly, the sound was back to normal. Is there a polarity issue? Should the wires be reversed? If I reverse the wires and the soundstage increase stays along with appropriately centered vocals, will it cause a problem with my system?

The system:
Mitsubishi LT-30
Zyx R100H
Sansui (upgraded, new caps etc) AU-D11 integrated
Kirksaeter 220 speakers
All Vampire CCC wire

Thanks all.
mt10425

Showing 1 response by casey33

Both channels reversed wouldn't be out of phase,merely left channel on right side and right on left,no? However for an adventure in soundstage I recommend Morton Subotnick "Sidewinder" it has deliberately out of phase synthesized bass parts mixed in with properly phased sounds.On elctrostats the sound seems to almost come from behind you.Definetly makes your skin crawl.