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8. Re: High Sample Rates

Subject: 8. Re: High Sample Rates
From: "Marinos Koutsomichalis" marinoskouts=
omichalis
Date: Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:25 am ((PDT))

well=0D
as I told I am not sure whether this is the case or not... :-)=0D

On 20 =CE=91=CF=85=CE=B3 2009, at 6:16 =CE=9C=CE=9C, John Lundsten wrote:=
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> Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote=0D
> when recording @ 44,1, the machine will measure=0D
> 44100 times per second the amplitude of the signal and=0D
> it will store these values somewhere. During playback these values=0D
> will be converted back to an analogue that WILL NOT be the same due=0D
> to the fact that only if we take infinite measurements we can have a=0D
> true digital representation of the signal. That is because has=0D
> absolutely no clue of what happens between those 44100 samples.=0D
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> This is quite simply not true. Assuming the sound that is sampled  =0D
> 44.1k/sec=0D
> has NO sine wave components greater than 22.05kHz then it is totally=0D
> predictable what happens between each measurement a sine wave is Very=0D
> predictable.=0D
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> =0D










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