I was thinking about soundstage imaging only..Our ability to discern the direction of a sound source by the left to right ear delay. If any musical content (like a vocal) is time shifted 20 usec by some nefarious skin effect thingy brought on by a bass guitar (for example) on the left channel only, the human brain (mine too) would discern that time shift as a source shift if the leading and trailing transients shifted the same way, and I don't know what it sounds like if the shift is dependent on the amplitude or polarity of the bass current.

But, that 20usec needs to be the difference between the two cables, in that example to cause the same shift. R.A.Grainer and the other referenced article could not come even close to those time periods, by several order of magnitudes.


I have experienced source shifting in headphones, one record in each ear, and varying the time relationship between the two...the image sounds like it is sweeping through the head. I can envision how confusing it would be if only a part of the musical content shifted that way.

Varying it by how much?

Course..this all assumes a skin shift is even real..

Why would it be not real? All the present day texts claim it real and calculate it to be real. The audibility of the magnitude is the question.
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