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Subject: How many bits, really? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 22:27:22 EST
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uiuccsb!emrath    Feb  4 02:36:00 1984

I have read here and in the mags that some players use 14-bit converters
and some use 16-bit converters and some use oversampling.
I have not read, however, what the actual format on the disc is.
How many (data) bits per sample and how many samples per second
are actually on the disc?  (I do know the fundamental sample rate
is 44.1kHz per channel)  Does anybody have a reference?
(I don't know much about digital signal processing, but I had this one idea
that digital filtering and oversampling could be similar - interpolate
extra numbers between the known numbers and feed them to the D2A).

BTW: How do you prefer to spell disk?