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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 8, 2011 0:52 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (guest, #31152)
In reply to: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) by alankila
Parent article: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

>I don't think the human ear is sensitive to phase at all

I might be reading you wrong, but the human ear is very sensitive to phase. For example phase is how the old Dolby Surround provided more channels than speakers.


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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 11, 2011 10:05 UTC (Mon) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]

Yes, that's not what I meant. Phase is important when it comes to coherence of several channels, but if you process all channels with a similar transformation, people aren't usually able to notice.

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