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The [[auditory system]] has mechanisms that separate the processing of late [[reverberation]] from the processing of direct sound and early [[Reflection (physics)|reflections]] referred to as [[precedence effect]]. While the late reverberation contributes to the [[perception]] of listener envelopment and reverberance, the direct sound and the early reflections mostly affect [[Sound localization|source localization]], intimacy and the apparent source width.<ref name="beranek">{{cite book|last1=Beranek|first1=Leo Leroy|title=Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture|date=2004|publisher=Springer|___location=New York|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-21636-2|isbn=978-1-4419-3038-5|edition=Second}}</ref> The balance of early and late arriving sound affects the perceived clarity, warmth and brilliance.

The auditory system does not process all early sounds together to derive a source ___location. In complicated acoustical scenes the auditory system integrates those parts of sound that share temporal, spectral, and spatial properties into one so-called auditory stream. An auditory stream is the counterpart to a visible [[entitywikt:object|object]] in [[Gestalt psychology]]. Several auditory streams are segregated from one another. The process of integration and segregation is referred to as [[auditory scene analysis]] and is believed to be the original function of the ear.<ref name="braun">{{cite book |last1=Braun |first1=Christopher B. |last2=Grande |first2=Terry |editor1-last=Webb |editor1-first=Jacqueline F. |editor2-last=Fay |editor2-first=Richard R. |editor3-last=Popper |editor3-first=Arthur N. |title=Fish Bioacoustics |date=2008 |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-73029-5_4 |publisher=Springer |___location=New York |isbn=978-0-387-73029-5 |page=105 |chapter=Evolution of peripheral mechanisms for the enhancement of sound reception}}</ref> Each auditory stream can have its own apparent source width. One auditory stream may contain the direct sound and early reflections of a single musical instrument or a [[musical ensemble]].

A high strength of low frequencies and incoherence of the left and the right ear of one auditory stream, especially of its direct sound and early reflections, increase the apparent source width.<ref name=blau/><ref name=ziemer/><ref name=beranek/>