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From:
Harvey Thornburg
Date:
Thu, 3 Feb 1994 19:25:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
Re: Vinyl vs Cd
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Tai Nguyen wrote:
quoted 7 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> >
Actually, there are five things that every idmer is assumed to know, and will hereby get tossed around as analytic to our very existence: 1. the special theory of relativity 2. the second law of thermodynamics 3. the Nyquist sampling theorem (described above) 4. the asymptotic equipartition theorem (rel. information to entropy) 5. the fact that Pete Namlook is a god, above all other ;=) Actually, remind me not to write anything at 8 in the morning. What I was really trying to say was that sampling at 44.1 kHz is of no consequence, and that the only limitations to digital media is the fact you have to quantize amplitudes. In other words, CD's are basically as good as _ideal_ analog media. /-oOOo------------oOOo-\ --------------------------/------------------------\-------------------------- "the only constant / Harvey D. Thornburg \ "the only certainty thing is change" / \ is uncertainty" / hthornbu@osiris.ac.hmc.edu \ ------------------------------------------------------------