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Is the human singing voice different from a linear, time-invariant (LTI) system?

Typically the human voice is modelled by a linear, time-invariant (LTI) system. An LTI system cannot add any frequency components to an input signal. This is obvious from the input-output relation in ...
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How does a spectrum analyzer works. Example with particular case: eyes [closed]

[edit]: I reformulated my question to first talk about general spectrum analyzer and then ask about how vision works (which is a particular case of spectrum analyzer as I explain below). Let's assume ...
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Phase Locking vs. Synchrony

Consider two cosinusoidal signals given by \begin{gather*} z_1(t) = A_1\cos\phi_1(t)\\ z_2(t) = A_2\cos\phi_2(t) \end{gather*} with \begin{gather*} \phi_1(t) = (\omega_1 t + \theta_1)\\\phi_2(t) = (...
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Can human ear distinguish between sounds of different phase?

A noise cancelling headphone produces a sound that's out of phase with ambient noise, mixes them and hence cancels them. But I wonder if we were to hear the 2 sounds which are out of phase to each ...
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