It's what sales wrote. Reminds me of a harsh joke I picked up in the 70s (that has MANY exceptions): How do you tell the difference between a computer salesman and a car salesman? A car salesman knows when he/she is lying. (Hmm. ChatGPT will slot right in for the current century. But maybe "perceives" would be better.) Pete
Mar 31, 2023 10:53:23 AM Rodney Radford via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org>: > That is one of many issues with that page - I posted it here more as a laugh > to those that know more than this page - not as a real page of information. > > Which is why I said it "hertz my brain" and why I posted tongue in cheek that > there were "a lot of new facts from this I have never seen in any other > location before" ;-) > > Considering this is a vendor's page, i certainly would not want to order > anything from this vendor if this is their level of understanding of what > they are producing/selling. > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 9:32 AM Brian via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> > wrote: >> On 3/31/23 00:35, Tadd Torborg via TriEmbed wrote: >>> From the linked article >>> >>> *"The majority of digital audio equipment operates at a sample rate of >>> 44.1 kHz or precisely 215 Hz”* >>> >> >> This is a patently false statement even if you add in the missing caret. >> >> Yeah, so as others have pointed out, the real answer to the silly >> headline question is because it makes a 16-bit counter overflow at >> exactly 1 Hz, which is super useful for driving digital timepieces, and >> apparently happens to be a comfortable resonating frequency for a quartz >> crystal. >> >> There's no clever relationship between 2^16 and 44.1 kHz, though. 44.1k >> is not a nice power of two. It comes, possibly, from NTSC TV scan >> rates; see https://dsp.stackexchange.com/a/17702 >> >> I would question the use of the word "majority" in that sentence as >> well. I'd claim the vast majority of digital audio equipment is capable >> of handling a variety of sampling rates. >> >> -B (who dabbles in the guts of digital audio) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list >> >> To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org >> List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: >> mailto:unsubscribe-triem...@bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe >> Searchable email archive available at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/triembed@triembed.org/ >>
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