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- From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Why filter D/A output?
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:39:59
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Driving a nonlinear, i.e. distorting, system, i.e. amplifier/speaker,
- with a single frequency produces an output made up only of that
- frequency and its harmonics. This can be shown easily by looking at a
- Taylor series expansion of a nonlinear function and seeing what
- happens to cosine squared and cosine cubed terms (use trig
- identities).
-
- However, if you dump two frequencies in, e.g. cos(x) and cos(1.2x),
- you'll get output at cos(0.2x) [sorry for the Lisp notation: (- 1.2 1)
- or the difference between the two fundamentals] and cos(0.4x) [the
- difference between the first two harmonics (- 2.4 2)], etc.
-
- Tweeters and amplifiers may be highly nonlinear outside 20-20k and
- therefore even if their output is attenuated, high amplitude 200KHz
- and 201KHz signals may interact to produce an audible 1KHz tone.
-
-
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- -- Philip Greenspun
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