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Article #10522Re: A question about the Nyquist theorm
From: Mark Zenier
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 19:49
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 19:49
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In article <wilf.667759065@rigel.sce.carleton.ca> wilf@sce.carleton.ca (Wilf Leblanc) writes: >When I bought my CD player, it said on the front panel 'Dual D/A >converters'. For fun, I asked the salesperson what that meant. >The reply was rather funny, and of course completely inaccurate. > >What does this really mean ? (I figured maybe two distinct D/A's rather >than 1 D/A and two sample and holds ??). Some of the first ones used 1 D/A and sample and holds. The BBC wanted to broadcast monophonic off of some CD's. With the half sample time delay, it made the signal sound terrible. They had to switch to one of the CD players with two 14 bit dacs. Ancient history. Mark Zenier mzenier@polari.uucp markz@ssc.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!sumax!quick!thebes!polari!mzenier From: mzenier@polari.UUCP (Mark Zenier) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.dsp Subject: Re: A question about the Nyquist theorm Message-ID: <3463@polari.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 91 19:49:40 GMT References: <625@ctycal.UUCP> <11515@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <wilf.667759065@rigel.sce.carleton.ca> Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 Lines: 17