Coincident delayed sounds are far harder to detect than spatially separated ones

Evidence

Comb filtering is often thought to be involved in all delayed sounds. However, a delayed sound arriving from a different horizontal angle than the direct sound is perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering. It adds to the information about the room. — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 729 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Late-arriving room sound becomes omnidirectional and uniformly distributed; Correlated sound sources create spatial interference patterns that uncorrelated sources do not.; Coincident pairs produce IAD while spaced pairs produce ITD in microphone recording (+5 more)

Related

• Late-arriving room sound becomes omnidirectional and uniformly distributed (similarity 0.94)
• Delayed sounds arriving from different angles are perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering (similarity 0.91)
• Steady-state comb-filter measurements fail to represent how transient sounds are heard (similarity 0.89)
• Sound is localized to the first arriving acoustic source despite delayed reinforcement (similarity 0.89)
• Precedence fusion suppresses spatial perception but never masks the delayed sound (similarity 0.84)
• Objectionable room perceptions are unlikely to stem from comb filtering (similarity 0.84)
• Mixing intensity and delay stereo cues produces spurious cues that confuse the ear (similarity 0.84)
• Coincident pairs produce IAD while spaced pairs produce ITD in microphone recording (similarity 0.83)
• Delayed correlated sources produce frequency-dependent comb filtering (similarity 0.83)
• Humans are least sensitive to delayed sounds emerging from the same speaker (similarity 0.82)
• The favored reflection conditions measure as comb filtering yet sound pleasing (similarity 0.82)
• Correlated sound sources create spatial interference patterns that uncorrelated sources do not. (similarity 0.82)
• Delayed identical sounds merge spatially until delays exceed 30-40 ms (similarity 0.82)
• Precedence accumulates source information while late arrivals actively disrupt perception (similarity 0.81)
• Room reflections mitigate the phantom-center comb-filter dip near 2 kHz. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Delayed sounds arriving from different angles are perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering #expands (0.85) — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 729
• Mixing intensity and delay stereo cues produces spurious cues that confuse the ear #expands (0.80)