Actually not an eye patch, but an adhesive bandage, which I use to hold my left eyelid shut.
Neg, to you and me, the current SA setup may seem like something out of the Ministry of Silly Walks, or the Argument Department (or is it the contradiction department--no it isn't). But I can tell you that jriver loves their backwards/left-handed SA, and they're stickin with it. I myself have grown kind of fond of it, over time, and I often find myself playing little mind games to see if I can actually mentally process two separate Spectrum channels (one of which is reversed) simultaneously. Short of hyperventilating, I can't think of a quicker way to get so dizzy you fall over backwards.
As for analyzing audio, what's the goal here? I was reviewing your post on SA programs, loopbacks, etc, and I've been trying a few things myself. For sheer entertainment, ghammer's Izotope/Ozone 3 gives great visuals and great precision, all for a $250 price tag that makes me think they've been sniffing auto exhaust. Plus, since I load in a 4-second buffer, everything it reports is 4-seconds ahead of the sound (AHEAD). If only that was the NYSE ticker, we'd really have something there. . .
Meanwhile, the much-maligned backward/left-handed audio parsley dingus is virtually dead on, maybe two-tenths of a sec early. So I agree, I'd love to see jriver develop an elaborate SA visualization, and I would point out that Izotope is getting $250 a pop for theirs, or at least got that much out of Ghammer.