D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

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Original Video: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

More videos in this series: http://xiph.org/video/

Get the software - https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/Digital_Show_and_Tell

Monty at Xiph presents a well thought out and explained, real-time demonstrations of sampling, quantization, bit-depth, and dither on real audio equipment using both modern digital analysis and vintage analog bench equipment.

This video has been reproduced with permission of Monty @ xipg.org and in accordance with Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Further reading: Audio Myths & DAW Wars - http://www.image-line.com/support/FLHelp/html/app_audio.htm

This is a video about the digital vs analog audio quality debate. It explains, with examples, why analog audio within the accepted limits of human hearing (20 Hz to 20 kHz) can be reproduced with perfect fidelity using a 44.1 kHz 16 Bit digital signal.