Does Speaker polarity really matter?

I have been wondering this, does speaker polarity really matter that much?

I try to keep them connected correctly with the marked positive to board sp+, but I have seen installs that look like they didn’t bother. Most wiring diagrams don’t show anything, but maybe they assume you will do it correctly. And lastly, I have received speakers that aren’t even marked, or the red marker was wiped off.

Makes no difference when using a single speaker, if you have the positive to the negative and vice versa, it reverses the polarity of the sound wave, you won’t really hear any difference in the sound quality, but if you have two speakers, one normally wired and one reversed the sound waves will
cancel each other out

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Was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the info.