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- From: joe@avs.com (Joe Peterson)
- Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing on the recording end?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:44:35 GMT
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- Gabe M Wiener (gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
- : In article <shetline-210193103508@128.89.19.74> shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes:
- : >It has obviously become popular in digital playback systems to use
- : >oversampling as a way to provide digital-domain filtering, allowing for the
- : >use of much less severe analog filters. But what's going on these days on
- : >the recording side?
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- : ...
- : above that would alias. In an oversampling system, the clock rate is run
- : much higher, say 88.2 or 176.4. Now, you simply sample everything four
- : times, and discard three of the four samples. The advantage here is that
- : now your clock signal is much, much higher, and you can have a much
- : gentler slope filter. If you have a 2X system, your clock is 88.2, so
- : you can attenuate gently until 66.2 (or 60.2 usually... a 2 kHz guard
- : band is standard). The same applies for higher rates.
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- : Once the data is sampled, the extra samples are decimated and then the
- : 44.1 kHz signal is recorded.
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- : There are more modern techniques (1bit, etc) which you can read about in
- : Pohlman if you're really interested :-)
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- I doubt you would want to simply "discard" the extra samples. You then would
- lose the advantage of oversampling! I assume you mean you would digitally
- filter down to 44.1...
- Joe
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