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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What NEW Amigas SHOULD have
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 04:44:33 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
- Message-ID: <1331.6601T1019T2277@midland.co.nz>
- References: <Gregory.Scribner.218a@mtrap.cts.com>
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- On 26-Jan-96 13:58:57 (Msg ID: <Gregory.Scribner.218a@mtrap.cts.com>), Gregory
- Scribner wrote:
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- DG>> >32-bit sound, why settle for 16 bit, that way we'd never have to
- DG>> upgrade
- DG>> >(at least unless our human ears suddenly get more sensitive)
- DG>>
- DG>> Time to go to school...
- DG>>
- DG>> Even the most sensitive of human ears can barely detect sounds above
- DG>> 20khz, with most
- DG>> people topping out around 18khz. But let's give everyone the benefit
- DG>> of the doubt
- DG>> and say 20khz for all. Using the Nyquist sampling theorem, we'd have
- DG>> to sample at
- DG>> twice that rate to avoid intersymbol interference (this from my
- DG>> Communications
- DG>> systems class in college) plus a little for overhead bringing us to a
- DG>> total of
- DG>> 44.1khz. This is easily covered using a 16-bit resolution.
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- Hold on here. The first person was talking about the bit resolution *NOT* the
- sampling rate. They are 2 totally separate things.
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- <tsb>Thor 2.22, 28-Jan-96 16:58:32
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- He's dead, Jim. Kick him if you don't believe me
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