One other thing I’ll add in case you want some technical stuff to flesh out your blind listening time shifting- People talk about ‘phase issues’ and ‘phasyness’ in a negative sense, but the only time there is no phase interaction between multiple channels which contain somewhat common signals is if all the microphones were coincidently located. All near or far spaced microphone techniques which are not coincident X/Y setups (M/S is X/Y) introduce phase interaction between channels, which is intentional and by design.
The most significant question is always, “does it sound good or not”. If it doesn’t sound good people tend to refer to “phasing” as a problem, but if it sounds good they usually don’t say “that phasing sounds really great”.
The phase interaction between non-coincident mic channels varies by frequency in direct relationship to distance as determined by the wavelength of the frequency in question and it’s relation to the delay time given the speed of sound. 1 foot of distance approximately = 1 msec of time at the speed of sound, yet 1 ms only = approximately one wavelength at 1kHz. It will = many wavelengths at higher frequencies, and only a very small fraction of a single wavelength at the lowest frequencies. So very short delays will cause audible phase interaction in the higher frequencies, while lower frequencies still have wavelengths far too long to hear a minor difference in their phase. Still short but slightly longer delays shift those significant interactions lower across the frequency spectrum. As some point the phase shift at higher frequencies becomes so large as to be essentially random and not significant in terms of hearing the phase interaction (multiple 100's of degrees of phase shift), while canceling / reinforcing is happening at lower frequencies with longer wavelengths. That is all happening at shorter end of the delay time spectrum, where the “thickening, chorusing, and pseudo-stereo stuff is heard. Once you get into the echo effects region, you are well outside the phase-interaction range for even the lowest frequencies.