Pat Farrell;131091 Wrote: 
> Patrick Dixon wrote:[color=blue]Right. Mike doesn't understand (or
> appears to not understand) the work 
> of Shannon and Nyquist. All of the digital sampling work is based on 
> their theories.
> 
> Nyquist showed that sampling at twice the bandwidth allows 
> reconstruction. That is why the RedBook spec uses 44.1 kHz.
> For decades, the hfi world used a bandwidth of 20 hz to 20kHz
> as the limits of human hearing. Sampling at 44.1kHz allows
> a little over.
> 

My understanding of the benefit of oversampling/upsampling is primarily
to get the digital artifacts resulting from imprecisions in the DAC
process to a higher frequency so that they can be more easily filtered
in a frequency range that won't impact the audible range.


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