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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Absolute phase
Message-ID: <1842@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 17:17:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 17:17:03 1986
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
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In article <1371@uwmcsd1.UUCP> shop@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Thomas Krueger) writes:
>
>Absolute phase in this case refers to the idea that most music is "positive
>pulses" and not "negative pulses". Take for example a drumstick hitting a
>cymbal. The first wave that hits your ear will be a compression followed by
>a rarefaction, etc. Many people think that if the first reproduced wave
>that hits your ear is a "negative" rarefaction, that the music will sound
>unnatural. Empirically, I tend to agree. Others say that most music is
>mostly "positive" pulses with much fewer "negative" pulses. 

Are you telling me that my eardrum wants to go "in" before it goes "out?"

To borrow a punchline form an old joke*: "How do it know?!"

I'm having a LOT of trouble believing this one...

keith

*Joke will be supplied upon request :-)