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- From: jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon for trvth in audio)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT/CD Sampling Frequency: who cares?
- Message-ID: <23327@alice.att.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:24:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.23327
- References: <1992Jul24.091023.18052@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Jul27.033213.25987@trl.oz.au>
- Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon for trvth in audio)
- Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals
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- In article <1992Jul27.033213.25987@trl.oz.au> tpearson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Trevor Pearson) writes:
- :chu@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Eugene Chu) writes:
- :: In article <5994@otc.otca.oz> brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
- :: >in article <Jul08.171025.23033@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, cc433336@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Constantinos A. Caroutas) says:
- :: :: Theory says that if you can sample at least twice per cycle, you can
- :: :: recreate the signal exactly.
- Um, not quite. Well, if you do some creative mixing and/or
- decimation, perhaps, but...
-
- :: :No no no. Not twice per cycle. At least twice the highest *frequency*
-
- :: I think the sampling frequency must be twice the BANDWIDTH of the signal
- :: you're trying to sample. Of course, Nyquist never said it would be easy.
- Hear, Hear! Gosh, guy, how DARE you get it right! :-)
-
- : Stop the argument. These statements are all the same for a sinewave,
- :and they are all obviously trying to infer the same thing.
-
- I beg your pardon? A sine wave has ZERO bandwidth if it lasts for
- all time, and very, very small bandwidth if it lasts for, say,
- a few seconds.
-
- Given that, a proper coding of a sinewave can proceed at a VERY, VERY,
- VERY low sampling rate. Now, yes, one has to THINK how to do it,
- and has to do some very intellegent filter design and decimation/interpolation
- work in order to do this, and sine-waves are easier generated than
- transmitted in most cases, BUT a sine wave of 20kHz, with no other
- signal every possible, does NOT require at least a 40 kHz sampling
- rate.
-
- Yeesh, some people's kids!
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