Originally Posted by
dave2010
Regarding tone - yes phase does seem to be relatively unimportant.
I believe, if I remember correctly, that for audio if an FFT is done, the phase component can be discarded completely, before doing the inverse operation, without affecting the sound significantly. The converse is approximately true for image FFTs.
However, phase coherence in a multi-channel system is important for spatial localisation.
With 'tone' this is going to be frequency - response dependant. The flatter the FR of the speaker, the more accurate the tone will be to the recording of the instrument, or voice (not the real sound of the instrument or voice as the recording process itself means we are already one step away from that).
With multi channel I see what you are driving it but I'm not sure how that can be accomplished, wouldn't a multi-channel system suffer the same phase issues as 2 channel - i.e room reflections and loudspeakers and recordings that are not phase-coherent?
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