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<blockquote data-quote="squeak9798" data-source="post: 2190511" data-attributes="member: 555320">The coil gets hot no matter what.&nbsp; That&#039;s the nature of running power through a wire/coil...it gets hot.&nbsp; Stick your hand next to a light bulb that&#039;s been on for a while......But no, there are no damaging effects that come from reversing the polarity.All it does is change when the speaker excurts outward and inward in relation to the signal.&nbsp; When wired &quot;normal&quot;, the speaker will excurt outwards during the peaks and inward during the valleys of the signal....with the polarity reversed, the reverse occurs.&nbsp; The speaker will excurt inward with peaks and outward with valleys of the signal.This, in turn, changes the relative phase of the speakers/system, which could in turn result in better sound quality.It will, for your particular installation.It is common practice to reverse the polarity of tweeter(s), midwoofer(s), and/or subwoofer(s) to better align the phasing of the drivers.Unfortunately, there is no way to guess what will work best over the internet.&nbsp; Simply need to play with the polarity to see which way sounds best.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squeak9798, post: 2190511, member: 555320"] The coil gets hot no matter what. That's the nature of running power through a wire/coil...it gets hot. Stick your hand next to a light bulb that's been on for a while...... But no, there are no [I]damaging[/I] effects that come from reversing the polarity. All it does is change when the speaker excurts outward and inward in relation to the signal. When wired "normal", the speaker will excurt outwards during the peaks and inward during the valleys of the signal....with the polarity reversed, the reverse occurs. The speaker will excurt inward with peaks and outward with valleys of the signal. This, in turn, changes the relative phase of the speakers/system, which could in turn result in better sound quality. It will, for your particular installation. It is common practice to reverse the polarity of tweeter(s), midwoofer(s), and/or subwoofer(s) to better align the phasing of the drivers. Unfortunately, there is no way to guess what will work best over the internet. Simply need to play with the polarity to see which way sounds best. [/QUOTE]

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