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Re: Two Ear Stereo and some rambling...Was Brain Filters etc

Subject: Re: Two Ear Stereo and some rambling...Was Brain Filters etc
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:18:02 -0700
Greg, you wrote,

>Methinks, there must be something to having the ability to hear with
>two ears - if one is lucky enough to have kept them both on. 
>
>If you've got a big head, like mine, there is probably a lot of
>difference between what the right and left ear hears, especially in
>a pub!
>
>I don't know if that difference is referred to as a phase
>difference, or some other kind of acoustic difference, but I would
>like to know how to describe it, and would be interested to hear -
>oops - from someone who knows.

It's called binaural! It's complicated and unlike anything else. But 
any reasonably close facsimile reaps much of the value, like mounting 
omnis either side of your head.

-Dan Dugan


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