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- From: whitcomb@aurs01.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: DSP sampling rates
- Message-ID: <61152@aurs01.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 19:48:22 GMT
- References: <2250287@overmind.citadel>
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- Reply-To: whitcomb@aurxc3.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb)
- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
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- In article <2250287@overmind.citadel> only_bbs!JOHN_LOCKARD@overmind.mind.org writes:
- [Round about desription of the Nyquist sampling theorem deleted]
-
- > That's why to get the 35KHz wave that the human ear is supposed
- > to detect you need at least 100KHz or more to reproduce the sound.
-
- Are you sure you don't mean canine ear? The human ear at best hears up
- to 20KHz, and the typical adult hearing range is up to about 14KHz.
- Besides, to reproduce a 35KHz waveform from samples all you really need
- is a 70KHz sampling rate. Hell, CD's are sampled around 44KHz!
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