Complex representation handles propagation-delay phase shifts on speaker outputs

Evidence

If we used complex numbers to represent the speaker outputs, say Ls1 and Ls2, then we could account for the phase shift due to the propagation delay by multiplying the speaker outputs by: Multiplying distance by k, the wavenumber, defines the number of cycles the wave is delayed by. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 382

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 382