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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 16:30:17
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- Peter Beck (peterbe@cogs.susx.ac.uk) wrote:
- : The definition of noise that I gave was that noise in general is
- : usually white noise, or random noise like white noise within the frequency
- : spectra in which we are interested.
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- "like white noise"? It's either white or it isn't. In the case of quantization
- the noise is most certainly not white.
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- : The amount of time taken to convert an Analogue signal into
- : Digital is completely random,
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- No, it is not. It is a direct function of the input signal, except in the case
- of a flash converter, where it is effectively constant.
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- : An ideal system implies that there is no noise or distortion,
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- No, it does not.
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- -- Mat.
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