Interpreting the Phase

This filter is delaying this frequency by half a sample.

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In fact, it delays all frequencies by half a sample (linear phase) and thus doesn't change the waveform shape (no phase distortion).


``Music 171: Introduction to Delay and Filters'' by Tamara Smyth, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University.
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