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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing on the recording end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.113642.11145@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:36:42 GMT
- References: <shetline-210193103508@128.89.19.74> <21718@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- matthews@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Thomas W. Matthews) writes:
-
- >In article <shetline-210193103508@128.89.19.74>, shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes:
-
- >|> I realize that the answer to this question would most likely depend on the
- >|> application. I imagine that most consumer DAT, DCC, or MD units employ
- >|> steep input filters and call the job done. However, I suspect that some
-
- No - low-bit converters with oversampling are MUCH cheaper, and so find
- their way into a lot of consumer DAT decks etc. Typical arrangements are
- 64xOS, 4-bit and 256xOS, 1-bit, since chips are readily available.
-
- >|> (most?) of the pro gear, and maybe even some high-end consumer stuff, would
- >|> use higher sampling rates (>50KHz) with more gentle filters.
-
- A lot of pro gear does do this as well. A 48-track digital tape machine needs
- 48 ADC's - if you can save 50 pounds on each one (not unreasonable) then
- you can save 2400 pounds on the whole machine.
-
- >|> The problem is, you'd need *real* higher sampling rates (as opposed to
- >|> computed oversampling), and the processing power to perform the sampling
- >|> rate conversion with digital filtering.
-
- Don't really understand the argument here - it's dead easy to get a 4-bit
- converter running at several MHz, and the digital decimating filter can
- easily run this fast too. What distinction are you trying to make between
- what you call "real" and "computed" oversampling?
-
- >16-bit samples at 44.1 KHz. I wonder if the faster sampling
- >can also be exploited to ease the constraints on the analog
- >anti-aliasing filter?
-
- That's exactly why the sampling is done at a higher rate. It is possible to
- get away with a low-bit converter because noise-shaping can be used to push
- the quantisation noise outside the audio band.
-
- Christopher Hicks
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