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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
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- Subject: Re: 4x Oversampling Compact Disc Specs........
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:41:24 GMT
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- christos@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- >Hello there,
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- > I have a question on compact disc specs. Does the 8x oversampling mean
- >8x8000 samples per second?
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- Compact discs store two channels of audio data at 44.1 ksamples/second/channel.
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- Most CD players use digital oversampling to increase the sample rate at the
- DAC, relaxing the requirement for a high-order analogue filter after the DAC.
-
- [ Long and often argued-about explanation of oversampling left out... ]
-
- In the example you quote (8x oversampling), the sample rate at the DAC will be
- 8 x 44100 = 352.8 ksamples/second/channel. Four times oversampling is most
- common because Philips produce a cheap chipset to do the job with virtually
- no glue logic.
-
- Christopher Hicks
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