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- From: rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers)
- Subject: Re: CD SOund QUality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.185945.25566@nynexst.com>
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- Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
- References: <24459@alice.att.com> <1992Dec21.213820.2737@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <vanz.029i@tragula.equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:59:45 GMT
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- In article <vanz.029i@tragula.equinox.gen.nz> vanz@tragula.equinox.gen.nz (Martin Nieuwelaar) writes:
- >
- >Say you sample at 44 KHz. The maximum theoretical limit of frequency
- >you can capture is half of this, 22 KHz. However, at this rate there
- >are only two samples per cycle. With two samples per cycle, a sine
- >wave will sound the same as a square wave. Surely this is not hi-fi?
-
- Remember that the input to the A-D is low-pass filtered before
- recording. A 22 Khz square wave has higher frequency components that
- result in the square edges. After low-pass filtering, this becomes a
- 22 Khz sine wave, which is exactly what you get when you play is back.
- It should be no different than listening to a live signal band-limited
- to 22 Khz!
- --Rob.
-