cliveb;694654 Wrote: 
> Er, no. Traditional oversampling (by factors of 2) is extremely trivial
> - you just stuff zero valued samples in between the existing samples.
> This does not create any extra information - it just alters the
> aliasing artefacts and moves them further up the frequency spectrum.
> Each doubling of the oversampling rate moves the artefacts one octave
> higher. The purpose of oversampling is simply to allow a gentler
> analogue reconstruction filter to be used.
> 
> I'm not so sure about what's now called "upsampling" - where the
> increase in sample rate is not a factor of 2. That does require new
> sample values to be computed. (I'd guess that it's done by first
> oversampling by a large factor of 2, applying a digital reconstruction
> filter, then resampling the result at the desired target rate. Please
> can someone correct me on this). Frankly I cannot see the point of
> upsampling - it acheives nothing of practical value that simple
> oversampling doesn't.

The main benefit (or I should say "aim" or "intent") of ASRC (hardware
upsampling) is to reduce certain types of jitter. It does indeed invent
new sample values.  I think this is a "swings and roundabouts"
situation, personally. Many DAC's use ASRC's.... AND internal
oversampling!


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