On 11/19/2011 08:54 AM, 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've got to agree with this. Anyone who has listened to something that also included signal that was 90 degrees out of phase knows that the result if anything but inaudible. -- --- My website is down. I had a motherboard failure on that computer!! (ugh) http://lateralforce.no-ip.org My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
