Klarinet Archive - Posting 000757.txt from 1997/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Nyquist
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:03:39 -0500

At 12:36 PM 11/20/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Perhaps we should also take heed of the term "highest frequency
>component", which could be of arbitrarily high frequency. This makes
>Nyquist-compliant reconstruction physically
>impossible to implement for a
>faithful analog(ue) of a real audio signal. Isn't this the
>*real*
>point?
>roger Shilcock
>
For purposes of discussion, I believe the arbitrary "highest frequency" was
20kHz, the top end of the theoretical range of human hearing. Sampling
data beyond that range is possible, but pointless.

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