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- From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- In-Reply-To: rsud@sw.stratus.com's message of 27 Jan 93 18:34:37 GMT
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:29:18
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- In article <1k6kjtINNqf5@transfer.stratus.com>
- rsud@sw.stratus.com (Rajiv Sud) writes:
-
- >> Of course, I could also find a certain 2.8 year old who likes
- >> McDonalds (tm) better, but what does that show?
-
- >> Or why the teenager who sits for my kids prefers harlequins
- >> to 'War and Peace', either. Preferece.
-
- Are you implying that the food preferences of a 2.8 year
- >old and the literature preferences of your baby sitter are as
- >"good" as the preferences of a gourmet cook or one who has
- >studied literature? Am I a "bigot" for suggesting that the 2.8
- >year old and your baby sitter have a lot to learn? (this is a
- >joke, right?
-
- The preferences of the child and the baby-sitter are just as
- real, and therefore just as good, as the preferences of the
- gourmet or the literature student. There are no absolute
- standard for taste. Those who hold their own preferences as
- inherently superior are indeed snobs and bigots.
-
- As to whether this current application of nyquist "gets
- >it all" remains to be seen. Robert Fulton suggested that a
- >sampling rate of 44.1k does not adequately handle the rise
- >time of a dynamic audio signal (does wonders for sine waves
- >below 20k, but I don't listen to sine waves).
-
- Yes, you do listen to sine waves. Fourier showed a long, long
- time ago that any signal is a sum of sinusoids. This facilitates
- the analysis and systhesis of linear systems. (Unfortunately,
- the human auditory system is non-linear.)
-
- Ciao,
-
- Jim
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- James Szinger jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu
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- "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
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