Klarinet Archive - Posting 000684.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Nyquist and analog
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:35:03 -0500

Jerry Korten wrote:
> >By definition, a sampling process that cannot represent a continous
> >process. This is a fact.

Jonathan Cohler responded:
> Not only is this wrong, but the opposite is true. In fact, the Nyquist
> theorem's importance and central position in information theory and the
> music business is precisely that one can mathematically PERFECTLY
> reconstruct a signal with highest frequency component F from a set of
> samples taken from the original signal periodically at a frequency of 2F.
>
> This is all mathematical, incontrovertible fact.

I am wondering how we can have two diametrically opposed viewpoints that
are absolute fact??

Roger Garrett