DeVerm;348682 Wrote: > The squarewave might look perfect while creating it in audacity but when > you play it and look at the scope it'll be not so perfect ;-). Truth is > that a perfect square only exists when originated in the analog domain. > And even then it just looks perfect on the scope but when you zoom in on > a corner you will still find imperfections. The reason is that you need > infinite frequencies to create a theoretically perfect one. 16/44 isn't > able to do it not even at 1 kHz, no matter what Nyquist says ;-) But > nobody in this forums believes that so why bother... Interresting is > that you don't need the 16 bits, just one bit would do it... > > cheers, > Nick.
Actually, Nick, in Audacity it is as near perfect as it is possible to be - the sample values aren't being recorded via an ADC they are being written to disk as pure numbers by a simple algorithm. I'd agree that Audacity can't record a perfect squarewave from an analogue source but that's not what I'm doing here. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53345 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
