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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Digital critics - sampling argument is nonsense
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:12:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.161252.13239@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1993Jan21.213648.32065@watson.ibm.com> <otterw.727690409@hpas5>
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- In article <otterw.727690409@hpas5> otterw@prl.philips.nl (otter den w) writes:
- >zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers ) writes:
- >
-
- >>If I can tell the difference, I may just have to scrap my CD's and plug in
- >>the old vinyl player until you guys pull the sampling frequency out another
- >>50 KHz!
-
- >Just a silly question: does the 'good old' vinyl player permit
- >frequencies as high as 20 kHz? As a rough estimation: suppose the
- >needle reads a 78 rpm (as I said, good old) disc at 20 cm (8
- >inch) from the center. A 20 kHz frequency then corresponds to a
- >spatial resolution of 13 micrometer. My impression is that that
- >signal is too small to be even detected by a mechanical needle.
- >
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- 'Good old' vinyl can have frequencies up to 50kHz. The CD-4 system
- required a 45kHz response to be able to decode the rear information.
-
- When talking with a engineer at Micro Acoustics many years ago, I was
- found that their electret cartridges were able to resolve 1/2 micron
- variations.
-
- We can resolve finer things with mechanical apparatus than we can with
- lasers as used in CD's and LD units.
-
-
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