Yeah, that's correct, but saying "cable length" and not "acoustic time distance cause by microphone placement" seems like it would confuse folks who might not h

Yeah, that's correct, but saying "cable length" and not "acoustic time distance cause by microphone placement" seems like it would confuse folks who might not have tried to solve phase alignment problems into thinking that the difference is wholly in the "cable length". But that could just be my reading of the thread.