chill;539949 Wrote: > I could be wrong, but I believe that the bits DO represent just the > volume - doesn't each sample represent the amplitude of the original > analogue wave? At 44,100 samples per second, the varying amplitude > recreates the individual frequencies in the original signal up to the > Nyquist frequency of 22.05 KHz > > > > What would that 1 bit tell you? 1 bit for volume? On or off? In my mind the value of the samples are supposed to represent a sum of functions necessary for reconstructing a signal (band-limited) that changes in time. In other words, the value of one sample is of interest only compared to the values of the two samples that surround it.
A volume, yes, of course. But I can't see how we can manipulate the values of the samples with simple operations (subtraction, division, etc) while maintaining a coherence in the signal, thus maintaining a coherence in the sum of functions. The result can only be an approximation. (The 1-bit was an example) -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Croft 25Pre and Series 7 power - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
