Juaquin
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An ideal circuit with just resistors has an impedance of R ohms. Capacitances and inductances add an imaginary component to the impedance of a circuit - now it is R+jwL+1/(jWC) (j being i, the imaginary number)
This imaginary component results in a phase change. It is the concept that allows AC motors to run (among many other things) - three waves exactly 120 degrees out of phase with the next, which is why you see 3 wires on most power lines.
If two wires have slightly different capacitance or inductance, each will change the phase slightly differently. Even the best wires are not perfect and there will always be variation. Is there enough variation to cause an audible phase change? Doubtful. We send power (albeit at much higher voltages) over thousands of miles of crappy wire without noticeable phase change on the other end.
In this case (stereo audio) the different waves do not interfere with each other (cancel, create a new wave, etc) because the signals are not added together, you would simply hear (probably not) a difference in timing between the ears.
Originally Posted by nick_charles /img/forum/go_quote.gif I understand in abtract physics terms about waves being out of phase, where the peaks of one wave match the troughs of a different but identical wave or if they are even a bit out of phase there will be an effect and a new wave form will be created by the interference ?. What I am having trouble understanding is how a short length of speaker cable can introduce phase differences between left and right channels that were not there to sart with. To do this one channel must delay the arrival time of signals relative to the other. |
An ideal circuit with just resistors has an impedance of R ohms. Capacitances and inductances add an imaginary component to the impedance of a circuit - now it is R+jwL+1/(jWC) (j being i, the imaginary number)
This imaginary component results in a phase change. It is the concept that allows AC motors to run (among many other things) - three waves exactly 120 degrees out of phase with the next, which is why you see 3 wires on most power lines.
If two wires have slightly different capacitance or inductance, each will change the phase slightly differently. Even the best wires are not perfect and there will always be variation. Is there enough variation to cause an audible phase change? Doubtful. We send power (albeit at much higher voltages) over thousands of miles of crappy wire without noticeable phase change on the other end.
In this case (stereo audio) the different waves do not interfere with each other (cancel, create a new wave, etc) because the signals are not added together, you would simply hear (probably not) a difference in timing between the ears.