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From:
Tai Nguyen
Date:
Thu, 3 Feb 1994 14:11:07 -0500
Subject:
Re: Vinyl vs Cd
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quoted 3 lines Bleah. When a sound is sampled at a certain rate, the resultant spectrum>Bleah. When a sound is sampled at a certain rate, the resultant spectrum >contains an image of the original at every frequency corresponding to the >samplerate.
<theory of relativity deleted>
quoted 5 lines with CD's. The only irreversible loss occurs when the sampled data>with CD's. The only irreversible loss occurs when the sampled data >(amplitudes) are then quantized to 8 bits or 16 bits or whatever. However, >since there is some limit where the ear/brain cannot process amplitude >information either, this quantization will have dubious meaning at some >point. I think the sound quality of CD's is excellent for all purposes.
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