Re: viewing waveforms

At 21:20 +0000 6/08/05, Rich Peet wrote:
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>Linked is a image of a tone and its second harmonic at 90 degrees out
>of phase as described by Eric so that you can see why it is not
>symetrical.
>
>< http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/wave.jpg >



And you can hear the difference here, even without earphones
if you're standing close to your computer's loudspeakers:
<http://lecume.free.fr/phase.aiff>.
The first half of the sound is "downwards" and the second
half is "upwards", and the relative perception of harmonics
is pretty different.

Matt


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