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Re: [microsound] OT (but maybe not) portable cd players and high freq
- To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [microsound] OT (but maybe not) portable cd players and high freq
- From: ben nevile <bbn@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 16:38:25 -0700
> wanted to
> see if anyone knows anything about why some portable cd players may
> distort while trying to play back extremely high frequencies. Aside
> from
> a player being low quality, perhaps it partially has something to do
> with
> the built in skip protection that many have these days?
more likely it has to do with the D/A stage. the D/A always attenuates
the highest possible frequencies to some degree even in the most
expensive players. cheap CD players have lousy D/A converters, i'm not
surprised there's some distortion in your (extreme) signal.
ben
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