Orientation of an orthonormal reciprocal basis

For a real basis matrix $E$ with basis vectors as rows, the reciprocal basis has row matrix $E^{-T}$. If either basis is orthonormal, both are, and $E^{-T}=E$. Thus $E$ is an orthogonal matrix, with determinant either $1$ or $-1$. It is a rotation matrix precisely when the original ordered basis is positively oriented relative to the reference coordinates. For example, $\mathrm{diag}(1,1,-1)$ is its own orthonormal reciprocal basis matrix but is an improper orthogonal transformation.