Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!imax!dave
From: dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Re: A simple, practical sound board
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.225256.13549@imax.com>
Keywords: 29 Meg 8-bit speech
Organization: Imax Systems Corporation, Oakville Canada
References: <16150@csli.Stanford.EDU> <16015@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov7.064409.17295@engin.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 22:52:56 GMT

In article <1990Nov7.064409.17295@engin.umich.edu> cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett) writes:
>
>I was quite impressed, as somewhat of a layman, with NeXT's built in sampling.
>Mac's 8-bit, 22Khz sampling, sounds awful.
>Perhaps it has something to do with the speakers I'm listening to.

Doesn't the NeXT use a companding ADC and DAC intended for telephony?
That has a lot better dynamic range than a linear 8-bit system.
On the other hand, telephony-oriented parts may only work at 8 kHz.