[Scott Dorsey]

Okay, how about this: listen to a phase rotator. It makes the waveform
look different... it clearly injures the phase relationship between the
components of that signal. But listen to it, and it has really very little
audible effect, if it's a good one. No tonal changes, no dynamic changes.

This should be the first hint that nonlinearity and phase shift are not
related.

Now... a lot of people talk about "phasiness" when they are meaning "comb
filtering." This is because one major source of comb filtering is when a
delayed signal is added to the original undelayed signal, and the end result
is cancellation that varies with frequency. But this is a _frequency response
problem_ that is a product of _both_ the signal summation _and_ the delay.
It's not really a "phase thing."
--scott


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