• Hugin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s Nyquist–Shannon. Norquist is taxes.

    Also frequencies greater than half the sampling rate aren’t lost they fold into lower frequencies unless filtered out.

    But if you think it’s easiser to capture those room acoustics with analog equipment the non linear amplification and distortion of any analog system is going to change the sound just add much if not more then a good digital system.

    So yeah both lose or distort the signal but digital does it in avery predictable way that can be accounted for and it does have a frequency region that it captures precisely. Analog doesn’t.

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        6 months ago

        Frequency folding is the term used in DSP no need for quotes. The Nyquist frequency is commonly referred to as the folding frequency.

        And yes frequencies above the Nyquist folding frequency alias into lower frequencies. A simple low pass filter prevents this however.

        Properly filtered digital sampling produced a more accurate reproduction of the frequency range with less distortion then an analog signal.