home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!kong
- From: kong@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kong Kritayakirana)
- Subject: CD Sound Quality?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.164406.25688@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: ?@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 16:44:06 GMT
- Lines: 40
-
- From: matthews@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Thomas W. Matthews)
-
- >In my application (not audio), I care only about the value of the input
- >waveform at the sample times. I will not be attempting to reconstruct the
- >waveform BETWEEN the sample times. Hence, the input signal need not be
- >bandlimited to half the sampling frequency.
-
- You CAN do that. But what you get when you look at the freq. domain you'll see
- all aliases and you can't tell them apart from the freq. below fs/2. I suspect
- the sampling rate you are using is much higher than 2 times the highest freq
- contained in the signal.
-
- >However, it is the goal of audio devices to reconstruct the input waveform
- >from the samples, including the part of the waveform between the samples.
-
- Correct. You can recover the waveform between samples almost perfectly if you
- filter out enough HF garbage.
-
- >I have heard it said that digital leaves out part of the sound
- >(the part between the sample times).
-
- That's argument that analog "golden ears" make without knowing enough about
- sampling theory. They think the sampling process throws some data between
- samples away in the 20-20kHz bandwidth.
-
- >these can be mitigated by
- >increasing the sampling frequency (to decrease required filter complexity) or
- >by doing more of ther filtering in the digital domain (certain types of
- >filter responses are possible there).
-
- You cannot solve the problem of aliasing with digital filter. Once you've gone
- from analog to digital, the aliases are already there and you cannot tell
- which is which if you use too low a sampling rate.
- ----------------------------------------------
- Kong Kritayakirana (kong@leland.stanford.edu)
- Remotely reading and posting to rec.audio from
- a nice beach somewhere in south pacific. Damn
- the technology that helps us to get in touch.
- ----------------------------------------------
-
-