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Why a CD takes 44,100 snapshots a second: Nyquist and the tone that folds back
A CD stores music as 44,100 numbers a second, with nothing in between. Sample more than twice as fast as the highest pitch and the wave can be rebuilt exactly…
Music & Sound
4 min read
2 Nov