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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:28:32 GMT
- Subject: Re: CD Sound Quality
- Message-ID: <7490273@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- References: <1992Dec22.090725.11365@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- > 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?
- > Suppose you say that you cannot hear this high a frequency.
- > Well, at 11 KHz, there will be 4 samples per waveform. How close
- > to a pure sine wave can you get with 4 samples? By looking at it,
- > not very. I'm not sure how noticable the difference in the sound is.
- > I guess it wouldn't be difficult for someone with a computer with
- > reasonable sound capabilities to try this out.
- >
-
- God, not this again. Here, let me introduce you to my good friend,
- Mr. Fourier, and his friends, Mr. Shannon and Mr. Nyquist.....
-
- Once more, with feeling: THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 22 kHz SINE WAVE
- AND A 22 kHz SQUARE WAVE UNTIL YOU CONSIDER COMPONENTS AT 66 kHz AND ABOVE.
- If you think you can hear that high, fine. 44.1 kHz sampling can reproduce
- ALL components up to 22 kHz EXACTLY.
-
- There. I feel much better now. I know it won't really do much good, but
- I feel better anyway.
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- Bob Myers | "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but
- myers@fc.hp.com | most of the time he will pick himself up and continue."
- | - Winston Churchill
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