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- From: chris@lightnin.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
- Subject: Re: Where can I find the Nyquest theorem
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 11:53:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.200552.12909@fcom.cc.utah.edu> dave@news.ccutah.edu (dave martin) writes:
- >Where can I find the exact statement of the Nyquest theorem? I have seen
- >some articles attributing certain properties of digital audio to the Nyquest
- >theorem which happen to be false. I am trying to find out if the theorem
- >is in error (unlikely) or if the author of the piece I read is wrong (more
- >likely).
- >
- >dave@csulx.weber.edu
- >DMARTIN@CC.WEBER.EDU
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- Nyquist has theorems in both the analog and digital domain. With respect
- to digital audio maybe the one you were referring to is Nyquist's
- minimum sample rate criteria. For a sample to be accurately reproduced,
- each cycle of the analog input signal (Fa) must be sampled at least twice.
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- Fs >= 2Fa
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- Fs = minimum sample rate (Nyquist)
- Fa = highest frequency to be sampled
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- if Fs < 2Fa, distortion will result--aliasing, foldover.
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- I am by no means an expert on this stuff. I remember it from a Digital
- Signal Processing class I took in school. The mathematical proofs can be
- found in any DSP book.
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