THE VIDEO SHELF · digital audio sampling
D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
Monty Montgomery of Xiph.org gives real-time demonstrations of sampling, quantization, bit depth and dither using real audio equipment, including both digital analysis tools and vintage analog bench gear. It shows that sampled audio is not stair-stepped and corrects common misconceptions about digital audio.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN calls it the gold-standard debunking of audiophile myths and the stair-step misconception, and recommends it as a primer on digital audio.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- FL Studio
- Topic
- digital audio sampling
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 15
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Monty Montgomery's explanation of digital audio might be the best explanatory video I have ever witnessed, [VIDEO]
combatentropy on Hacker News · 2018-09
In Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?[LINK] The talk [VIDEO] <-- Youtube backup in case it doesn't work (YMMV) I wish I could force any audiophiles to watch it before they waste their money on snake oil. I think a similar point can be made about analogue synthesis, e.g. You pay …
mhh__ on Hacker News · 2019-07
In A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]> Audiophiles might point out that analog audio sources can theoretically hold details you can't hear in digital. This is true because values in analog media are continuous. Over imperceptibly short periods of time, the numbers that represent different values on a sound wave in …
SeanLuke on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Why Cassettes?
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