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- From: kong@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kong Kritayakirana)
- Subject: CD Sound QUality - Sampling Theorem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.151657.20729@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 15:16:57 GMT
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- From: shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
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- >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.
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- You are absolutely correct.
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- >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?
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- You can recover all freq that is less than half the sampling freq. The only
- problem is with the signal with EXACTLY half the sampling freq.
-
- >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?
-
- It would still result in the single freq that you sampled. It would look
- like some "beating" is occuring but in the long stream of data you get
- exactly that frequency back.
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