On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 14:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PPPS: > > Phases are the ABC of audio engineering, everything that has to do with > music, has to do with time. Everything is time related, every EQ, just > everything. There's no math that is able to separate channels by phases, > assumed the frequencies are all recorded just by audible frequencies and > not transformed to higher frequencies, by theory transposing to > inaudible and back to audible frequencies could work. Practical, hm?! > > There already is no perfect backwards compatibility from 2 channels to > one channel regarding to timing issues, e.g. the +/- 180° thingy. It's > completely idiotic to add a third channel by what ever time shift to 2 > channels and then to decode this nonsense. > > Unbelievable that this is a serious discussion :(. During the decoding > there will be overlapping between the clean stereo signal and the third > channel. Take a pencil and draw 3 sinuses to a paper by your imagination > and than think about adding the third sinus to the two other sinus. Some > kind of encoding and decoding, just by an imaginary picture in your > mind. > > I'm quit now. Don't get me wrong, we aren't talking about analog telephone, but high quality recorded and played music. Quit now :| _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
