Each channel's sound can be placed freely in the stereo image.
It's quite another to develop a stereo 3-D image of a new molecule that might exist only in the imagination.
All of those systems rely on two cameras to generate a stereo image.
Each track can be individually panned, to create a stereo image.
However, the differential phase between legs has a very dramatic effect on the stereo image.
This is because the formation of the stereo image in the brain relies on the phase difference information from the two ears.
For a good stereo image, listeners should be roughly the same distance from the left and right speakers.
When stereo images are seen by looking into a viewer the window is at the position of the frame.
Those that only widen the stereo image by modifying phase information.
The recording engineer's goal is usually to create a stereo "image" with localization information.