On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:37:47PM -0600, Neil wrote: > Something I recently wrote about 44.1, sound quality and esoteric home > audio equipment: > > http://oldmixtapes.blogspot.com/2012/11/ultrasonic-speakers-hi-fi-high-sample.html Well done, I enjoyed reading it. Just one remark: dithering has nothing to do with aliasing, and it certainly doesn't 'mask' it. It is used to remove the distortion that could result from quantisation (i.e. using a finite number of possible values for each sample). More accurately, dithering doesn't mask such distortion (in the sense of 'hiding' it), but converts it into noise. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
