Digital audio explained: sampling, bit depth and dither (Monty Montgomery)

Name: Digital audio explained: sampling, bit depth and dither (Monty Montgomery)
Uploaded: 2013-03-02T21:46:23Z
Duration: 23 min 53 s
Description: Monty Montgomery of Xiph.org uses analog bench gear and live demos to show how sampling, quantisation, bit depth and dither really work, and why 16-bit, 44.1 kHz audio captures everything we can hear.

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Monty Montgomery of Xiph.org uses analog bench gear and live demos to show how sampling, quantisation, bit depth and dither really work, and why 16-bit, 44.1 kHz audio captures everything we can hear.

Recommended by 15 people on Hacker News since 2017, often as the best explanation of digital audio there is, and the end of the stair-step myth.

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@combatentropy Recommends it · View on HN

Monty Montgomery's explanation of digital audio might be the best explanatory video I have ever witnessed

@sramsay Recommends it · View on HN

This (11-year-old) video is the gold standard for addressing this concern

@louthy Recommends it · View on HN

it's a proper hacker's view of digital audio and how it translates to the analogue domain

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