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/* Illustrations and explanations of digital audio */
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''Fig 7. An amplitude/time graph showing the sampled waveform. As explained in the note for Figure 4, this is only a visual representation of the digitally stored audio, '''not''' of the signal that would be output by any competent audio card. However, it does illustrate how low sampling rates reduce the bandwidth of frequencies: This waveform was generated at a low sample rate, and therefore the resulting waveform is much more coarse compared to Fig 4. Notice that although the general shape is similar to the original waveform, much of the smoothness is is lost between the time of each measurement. The loss of smoothness also means loss of information: the lower the sampling rate, the more information is lost; in other words, the maximal frequency that the signal can represent is lower. Similarly, lower bit-depths mean that the signal is less accurate, and in extreme cases can generate audible noise. Therefore, to record a sound, it is best to use relatively high sampling rate and bit-depth; CD audio's 44.1 kHz and 16 bits -bit should be more than adequate for most uses. Due to the way the CPC hardware process the sound signal, especially 16-bit has zero advantage over 8-bit for CPC cassettes. To sum it up, 44.1kHz and 8-bit is recommended for storage of CPC cassettes.''
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