Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!ark From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Digitally encoded square waves Message-ID: <2894@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 22:25:57 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.2894 Posted: Fri Jun 22 22:25:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 08:50:03 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 9 If you've read this far, you've probably seen a picture of the output of a CD player when trying to reproduce a square wave. Doesn't look much like a square wave, does it? Well, if you take that waveform and sample it at the appropriate rate, you will get a series of samples that are INDISTINGUISHABLE from samples of a square wave. What reason is there to choose one over the other on playback?