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-samp…
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,
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