Oversampling in the context of the D-A process involves multiplying the sampling frequency by a whole number, typically between 4 and 32, or even higher. For example, in ‘8x oversampling’, CD’s base rate of 4.4.1kHz is raised to 352.8kHz by introducing seven new ‘empty’ samples between the original data samples. These new samples, though, are often not just empty strings of noughts, but based on mathematical models to assist the DAC to work more linearly with the extracted data.
Oversampling, as well as easing the workload of the anti-aliasing filter, which can now operate more gently at a higher frequency, can also reduce distortion created when those analogue signals are first turned from continuous, analogue waveforms into stepped, digital, stair-like curves. This quantization noise is now spread over a larger band after oversampling, and can even be somewhat shifted out of the audible envelope by the technique of noise-shaping. Sony/Philips’ Direct Stream Digital, as used in SACD, takes this idea to its limit, in order to dump high levels of digital noise up to higher frequencies than are not directly audible.
imo is het grootste voordeel van oversamplingdat de noodzakelijke filtering veel verder van het hoorbare spectrum kan beginnen (en dus ook flauwer kan zijn). Filters verkrachten het geluid namelijk.
FYI
Upsampling is a solely digital domain process where the data stream is also stretched out by interpolation — guessing the points in between, again mathematically — and is typically used to refer to small, non-integer changes, such as from 44.1 kHz to 48kHz. When the change is larger than this, such as 44.1 kHz to 192kHz, ‘upsampling’ is a more popular term.
'There is apparently no extra information in the upsampled signal that was not present in the initial signal,’ says Mike Story of dCS. ‘With a 44.1 kS/s input, both the input data stream and the upsampled data stream will only contain a spectrum that must be between 0 and 22.05 kHz and is probably only between 0 and 20kHz.'
Aliasing teedt op als de sample frequente te laag is om een signaal nauwkeurig te beschrijven, met als resultaat dat we ipv dat signaal een misvormd signaal gaan horen (30 Khz wordt bv 18 Khz). Dat treedt met cd op vanaf 22.05 Khz, dus daar wil je afkappen.
Nog iets meer over het belang van de filtering (en aliasing)
http://www.earlevel.com/Digital%20Audio/Oversampling.html
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