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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
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- Subject: Re: Digital critics - sampling argument is nonsense
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.101954.14845@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:19:54 GMT
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- zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers) writes:
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- >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 :)
-
- I hope (and expect) that this is a case of fingers getting ahead of brain...
-
- A CD sampled at 44.1kHz retains all the information at up to (but not
- including) 22.05kHz. Note that there will also be some information loss
- at the extreme high-end (say above 20kHz) due to the anti-alias filter.
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- Quantisation to 16 bits also represents an information loss - a rounding
- 16-bit quantiser is equivalent to addition of white, Gaussian Noise at
- around -96dB.
-
- Christopher Hicks]
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- Christopher Hicks | If it doesn't fit...
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