Just to maybe put some people at ease and hopefully arousing some
discussions, I'd like to point the attention of a lot of people in the
DSP corners of recreation and science, hobby and serious research to the
general foundations for Sampling Theory and Digital Signal Processing
and possibly information theory and filter knowledge.
Of course there is little against a lot of gents (and possibly gals)
plowing around in the general subject of "doing something with audio and
a computer". It appears however that for the reasonably reasons such as
required IQ and education (or for fun) but also for less reasonable
reasons such as power pyramids and greed, the theoretical foundations of
even the simplest thing of all, playing a CD or soundfile through a DA
converter for many remain rather shaky or plain wrong or simply absent.
For analog electronics filters and such are well known subjects
applicable from the simple to the quite complex and the electronics
world generally tends to have a solid foundation for dealing with the
issues and theories involved, though not necessarily all electronicists
are on par with the required network theoretical foundations, I've
understood MNA methods in the US are even taught at high school level.
For EEs (electrical engineers) it will usually be the case they've heard
about sampling theory somewhere in their education, and idem ditto for
some filter or circuits and systems type of theory. Many others, like in
IT (informatics), even physics and other disciplines or people making
their hobby a profession this might all just as well be abacadabra, and
it seems to me this should change.
Regards,
Theo Verelst
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