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- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Message-ID: <DLLE8z.7rs@GTS.NET>
- Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario
- References: <wfblanDL5rJB.IK8@netcom.com> <4doo4s$r5g@news.jhu.edu> <4dsren$omc@news.fonorola.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:07:46 GMT
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- In article <4dsren$omc@news.fonorola.net>,
- Clay Hellman <hellmanc@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
- |
- |Example: Take 2 samples, one at 8 bit 44khz and one at 16 bit 22khz.
- |They both take exactly the same amount of memory. However, if you
- |listen to them both, there is no comparison to which one will sound
- |better. The 8 bit 44khz one will obliterate the other one. Bit
- |resolution ONLY makes a difference with very low level signals (QUIET
- |SAMPLES!!!).
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- Ummm, you're not taking all quantising errors into account -
- the number of bits/sample also determines how closely the
- analog signal is replicated in the amplitude domain, whereas
- the sampling rate determines the fidelity in the time domain.
- Lack of resolution in either domain will inevitably produce
- distortions - however it's more likely that unfiltered
- aliasing artifacts are more noticeable, but for higher
- frequencies the same problem applies in the amplitude domain.
- Take a 20 KHz sine wave for example: sampled at 44 Khz, there
- are only 2.2 samples/cycle, so it's not going to produce a
- very accurate representation of the original analog input.
- At 1 Khz, with 44 samples/cycle, it should be easy to visualise
- that time quantisation errors are diminished, but the size of
- amplitude steps still produce the equivalent of 1/256 peak
- error for 8-bit encoding, or approximately 0.4% distortion.
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