Labels:book | chat room | daily | hakham | plant | sky OCR: DIGITAL MEDIA 4 2 3 Does sampling rate affect sound quality? Sampling rate refers to the number of times per second that sound is measured during the recording process It is expressed in hertz (Hz One thousand samples per second is expressed as ,000 Hz or kHz (kilohertz). Higher sam- pling rates increase the quality of the sound recording but require more storage space than lower sampling rates The height of each punos sample can be saved as an 8-bit number for radio-quality recordings or a 16-bit number for high-fidelity recordings. The audio CDs you buy at your favorite music store are recorded at sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, which means a sample of the sound is taken 44 100 times per second Sixteen bits are used for each sample To achieve stereo effects, you must take two of these 16-bit ...
