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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 16:34:28
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- Zsolt Szabo (robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <judas.0ho5@tomtec.abg.sub.org>,
- : Th.Huber <judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org> wrote:
- :
- : >>But which isn't really true. The 16-bit sound will be better since
- : >>the bass hardly has a spectrum that reaches beyond 11kHz.
- : >
- : >
- : >Sampling 11kHz with samplerate of 22khz will produce noise at 11khz and 33khz.
- : >Although this noise may be seen as an improvement, it`s noise nevertheless.
- : >
- : >Sampling 8Bit at 44khz doesn`t produce within 22khz, thus you don`t hear any noise.
-
- Of course you will; it's called quantization noise. At 16 bit precision, however,
- this noise becomes inaudible for any conceivable audio signal.
-
- : >Unfortunately Amiga`s DMA sometimes skips data when running 4 channels together with
- : >a hires-screen. This way you get noise, although you set the rate to 44khz.
- :
- : Sorry, but this is complete nonsense. Ever heard of the term signal to
- : noise ratio? An ideal 16 bit signal has an SNR of 96dB; by comparison,
- : an 8 bit sample has 48dB SNR. This has little to do with the
- : sampling/playback frequency.
-
- It has a lot to do with it. Lower sampling rates remove more information,
- hence the noise level is increased. Exactly how much it increases depends on
- the frequency distribution of the original signal and the sampling rate you
- use, _as well as_ the quantization characteristics and other factors.
-
- -- Mat.
-