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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Superstition
Message-ID: <1744@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 17:38:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: rabbit.1744
Posted: Mon Aug  1 17:38:35 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 11:48:25 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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I quote someone at rochester:
	"

	
	Much closer effect to a phase shift between different frequencies
	(180  degrees was  reported  for some CD players) can be obtained
	by reversing the polarity of one speaker in the stereo pair. This
	is  an   exagerration,   but  the  basic effect is the same - the
	sound appears "smeared" and originating   everywhere,   as    the
	directionality  is lost.
	
	"

A phase shift between DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES is utterly, TOTALLY, and
irrevocably UNRELATED to a phase shift BETWEEN CHANNELS.  
The perceptual effects of the two distortions are likewise utterly
dissimilar.

Good GRIEF!

Good night!

rabbit!<netnews has no bearing on reality, don't mail me>jj