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Let's say that my sample frequency started at twice the frequency of the the tick marks in the examples below.
You'd clearly hear a difference between the sine wave, the triangle wave and the square wave.
Now, let's say I convert that to half the sample rate.
Now all three waves would sound the same (and like the triangle wave), wouldn't they?
But I suppose they also would have sounded like that if you'd sampled at the lower frequency in the first place.
Thinking about it, there must be a therotical limit to the sample frequency which is ultimately determined by what can detected by human hearing. Why don't we all just use that frequency and be done with it? Ideally make it divisible by as many other nunbers as possible - say 60, 120, or 240 khz etc. EDIT: Actually this is pretty much what we have with 48, 96 etc. (I'm catching up slowly)
And CDs can bugger off with their wacky sample rates.
No, the Nyquist-Shannon sample theorem states that:
"If a function x(t) contains no frequencies higher than B hertz, it is completely determined by giving its ordinates at a series of points spaced 1/(2B) seconds apart."
In other words, you can represent any signal accurately if you sample it at twice the maximum frequency of interest. The "shape of the wave" is not relevant.
R.
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What's the fundamental frequency of each?
If your starting sample rate is 96kHz then the fundamental of each is 12kHz, which is very, very high. All of these would sound exactly the same as the first harmonic in the triangle wave is 24kHz - above the human hearing threshold - and the first harmonic in the complex wave and the square wave is 36kHz, which is a lot above the human hearing threshold.
If your sampling rate is lower then it's an odd question - I am happy to go through why, but it'll require that I do quite a bit of concentrating or the sums are likely to be off. I may even need to poke my tongue out of the corner of my mouth.
And it also means that once your sample rate gets above 40k you are never going to be in a siuation where you aren't represnting the signal accurately .
I have learned something - i.e. 48 is best. Unless you plan to encode it as MP3 or put it on a CD. In which case use 44.1. Right?
It's at the core of most digital communication technologies, so yes - clever
@Cirrus posted earlier that it's not as simple as using 44.1 for CD. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with him as I've not got time to check my rusty knowledge [1] but it sounds reasonable.
R.
[1] I have a B.Eng(Hons) in Electroacoustics, and did my final year project on Digital Filter Design, but I graduated in 1991!
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I have worked with converters in the past where I could hear the difference at higher sample rates - an old Motu 828 in a studio I used 2003-2006 was *really* eye opening to me when I recorded a drum kit and was able to switch between the live mics coming through the desk and the monitored sound going through the A/D D/A; the converted sound was much flatter, lively metallic cymbal harmonics turned into sheets of white noise basically... and it wasn't as bad at 88.2 So I'm aware that sample rate *can* matter when the converter's not been designed properly. But I'm not superstitious about it: I try it, if it sounds worse I'll use a higher SR and if I can't tell the difference I'll use 48; especially these days when the CD is nothing but a sideshow as lossy codecs are totally happy converting straight from a 48k wav. And as already stated, if I do need a 44.1kHz file I'm happy to convert it using whatever decent SRC software is to hand.
Dan Lavry, who makes converters, did a white paper where he argued that 60khz would be the ideal sample rate; the filters are moved up out of the audio range and can be gentler, there's only half an octave of audio that's above human hearing, and it's not so fast that the converters loose accuracy or the file sizes get silly.
Here's my bottom line, anyway: Music's about soul and emotion, as long as they survive I'm happy.
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