opaqueice Wrote: > Actually, what amazed me (and caused me to stop reading) was that they > agreed on that... > > In any case, this demonstrates rather nicely that not only are absolute > phases inaudible in music, so are _relative_ phases, which one might > have expected to actually matter (note that the phase shifts > artificially added here are enormous - much larger than would be > expected in a normal hi-fi system - and yet are still inaudible): > > http://www.ethanwiner.com/phase.html
Lets switch terminology so it makes more sense: "Reversed polarity" is when rarification is replaced by compression, and vice versa (in sound wawes). "Delay" is when some component of a complex sound wave arrives delayed relative to some other component. A given time delay for a given frequency can be expressed as a phase shift of a number of degrees. Note: Since the ear is a frequency analyser it may or may not care about such delays. Any such delay may be totally unrelated to reversed polarity issues, as far as the ear is concerned. (Or it may not be -my point is that the two things are not the same.) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
