Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, sick and tired of all this nonsense)
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In article <1993Jan20.211233.37643@watson.ibm.com> zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers) writes:
>I recently witnessed another case of the analog sentimentalist trying
>to use the 'sampling' argument to lodge a complaint against Digital.
Yeah, like TAS had in its last issue, a raving loonie article
about "what's wrong with digital" that got the number of
bits wrong (called the 16th bit a parity bit. Well it' can't
be because I have about 3 hours of data from CD on my local
machine for scientific use, I can see numbers up to 32000 +-,
and there's no bit that's set to parity of all 16, of course
16 bits IS the spec, TAS drivel aside), made 6 linked and
obvious errors in the signal to noise ratio of CD, all
in the "bad" direction, had a cute little diagram point
to the "space between samples" while not bothering to consider
anything of time-frequency duality, and so on.
>ignorance of the Nyquist Sampling theorem. All of you digital skeptics,
>please note that CD's capture ALL frequencies up to 44.5 KHz, reproducing
>them faithfully (butter than vinyl, I argue). Frequencies above 44.5 KHz
>don't matter, that's far above the threshold of hearing anyway :)
Oh, geeeze, come on. It's all those frequencies up to 20khz,
the nyquist limit is 22.05 kHz and the antialiasing filters start
to kick in at 20kHz...
Well, not as bad as MTV, maybe.
Sigh. It's people like you what cause unrest!
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