OK, in case anyone cares, relative phase is quite easily audible in some test signals, but not in others (I've just been playing with Audacity). If you combine two tones with commensurate frequencies - for example 200 and 400 Hz pure tones - it's very easy to hear the difference as you change the phase of the 400 Hz tone. The pitch sounds slightly different.
On the other hand if the frequencies are incommensurate (as an example I tried 200 and 341) you can't hear the phase. It's clear why - these tones sound constant, so there's no way phase could matter for incommensurate frequencies that are far apart. But since all instruments produce harmonics, I wonder whether this might be audible for more realistic sounds. If so, maybe there is something to this idea of using fancy digital crossovers... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
