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Article #7986Re: ..but what about _output_ filtering for D/A's?
From: Roy Smith
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 03:47
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 03:47
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rosentha@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (rosentha) writes:
> Can a 20 and 21khz tone combine to give an audible difference frequency?
> Yes they can, if they are loud enough. The ear has some nonlinearity and
> should mix the two signals down to a kiloherz.
I missed the beginning of this, but rosentha's statement doesn't
make sense. You don't need any nonlinearities to mix two signals to get
their sum and differences, all you need is a (linear) adder. What you need
a nonlinearity for is to get detection without a mixer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!adm!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: ..but what about _output_ filtering for D/A's? Message-ID: <1990Oct26.034707.13720@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 26 Oct 90 03:47:07 GMT References: <1319@beguine.UUCP> <17660121@hpfcdj.HP.COM> <7486@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <88@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 14