adamdea;578793 Wrote: > I have been studying this quite carefully as there are lots of useful > points. I promise it wasn't point 1 I was missing and I don't think it > was point 3 although I guess I do find the terms resolution and > precision confusing. (I have been puzzling over the question of what > the precision of an analogue system is) > > I also undertake never to allow my mind to wander into visual > analogies. > What I am getting confused about is what happens when a sound (which, > obviously as you point out, has an amplitude that varies over time)gets > louder and softer. Let's assume there is no other sound in the > recording. If the sound (is it allowed to be a sine wave?) varies in > amplitude between 128 and 32- xxx...10000000 and xxxx....00100000 > and it became louder so that the peak amplitude was 2048 > xxx....100000000000, what would be the number which now represents the > minimum amplitude of this wave? Would it be 1952 (11110100000 ?) or > something else? > I have a feeling that if I could grasp this I could understand the > point. I'm sorry, and don't take this bad. I don't want you recording me if I become famous. It won't happen unless I die in an outstanding way but still.
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