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From: ron%brl-sem@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Oversampling in CD players
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 20:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 20:37:00 1986
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> Every now and then, sombody comes up with some sort of interpolation
> scheme. These invariably warp the spectrum and therefore don't work. The
> point of oversampling is that you have "data to burn" so you can afford
> to miss a few samples here and there.
> 
This is wrong.  The only reason for oversampling (which is really not
really sampling many times but running the output D-to-A's at a higher
rate than the original sampled material) is because good digital filtering
is easier (read CHEAPER) than good analog filtering.

-Ron