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- From: shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: CD SOund QUality
- Followup-To: rec.audio
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 07:35:40 GMT
- Organization: BBN
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- References: <1h17e4INNrkv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <24459@alice.att.com> <1992Dec21.213820.2737@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <vanz.029i@tragula.equinox.gen.nz> <24474@alice.att.com>
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- In article <24474@alice.att.com>, jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and
- really disguted scientist) wrote:
- ...
- > The Nyquist and Shannon theorems still hold, folks, despite
- > your misunderstandings.
- ...
-
- First, I just want to assure you that I have no problems with CD sound, and
- I
- believe that I've got a good idea what the Nyquist theorem is about at a
- qualitative, if not mathematical, level. But I do have a question for those
- who
- understand it better:
-
- I wonder what happens to higher frequency signals as they approach half the
- sample rate? It seems to me that at *exactly* half the sample rate, the
- amplitude of a signal would be entirely dependent upon its phase
- relationship
- with the sampler, going from maximum amplitude when samples were taken at
- the
- peeks and troughs, down to nothing if the samples happened at
- zero-crossing.
-
- It seems then that slightly lower frequencies would slide in and out of
- phase
- with the sampler. What, if any, audible effect could this produce? Would
- low-
- pass filters eliminate such an effect? Wouldn't the end result be like
- amplitude modulation, producing a spread of frequencies centered on the
- original
- signal frequency, +/- the beat frequency?
-
- My apologies if this has already be brought up a sickening number of times.
-
- -Kerry
-