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I have seen a few terms in comp.dsp recently that I am unfamiliar with.
Would someone be kind enough to mail me a definition?  I'll try to post
a summary if someone else hasn't beaten me to it.

The term that I am most unfamiliar with is "decimation."

Also, although phase shift is fairly clear what it means, I am curious
what a hi-fi system that had excessive phase shift would sound like.
Would if affect mainly sounds like a rim shot on a drum that are I could
imagine are similar to an impulse function and thus have a large high
freqency component?

Thanks.

Bill Smith
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