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Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE
Date 2025-08-16 13:12 +0100
Organization A little, after lunch
Message-ID <107psk2$1k377$42@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (22 earlier) <Im-dnfJnV5-MRwP1nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <107n9cb$12hcd$28@dont-email.me> <107ng5n$15rfj$1@dont-email.me> <107oprl$1f6pb$4@dont-email.me> <107pm1g$1l5v2$1@dont-email.me>

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On 16/08/2025 11:20, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 16/08/2025 12:19 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:28:11 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:
>>> On 15/08/2025 10:32 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well no., It's just a DAC that's all. Run by a bit banger. More
>>>> hifi, but not complicated, Just precise.
>>>
>>> DAC == hifi ..... I don't think so!! ;-P
>>
>> Watch out for “oversampling”. At one point it somehow became a selling
>> point on its own. All it really was, was a discovery that, in the
>> design of a DAC, it was easier (i.e. cheaper) to handle a higher
>> sample rate than it was to provide more sampling levels. But if you
>> averaged out a suitable number of samples at the higher rate, you
>> could produce all the necessary in-between levels at the lower, target
>> rate.
>>
>> Taking this to its ultimate conclusion, you have “bitstream” DACs,
>> which only have two output levels: 0% and 100%. But with a sample rate
>> of 44100 × 65536 × «additional_factor» Hz, an averaging output
>> low-pass analog filter produces the full range of CD-quality audio.
>>
> "CD-quality audio", sure, but it is still a digital representation of an 
> Analogue waveform which, in theory, has an infinite number of samples 
> per second.
> 
No. It doesn't.

Not even in theory.

Air molecules are discrete things. As are electrons.

And no one can hear 22kHz.

> But, then, after some time, our hearing suffers so listening to a CD is 
> "Good Enough"!!

CD was was and is way better than any analogue, then and now.

Vinyl was the biggest heap of crap until the cassette tape came along.

I know. I put meters on them all.




-- 
"It was a lot more fun being 20 in the 70's that it is being 70 in the 20's"
Joew Walsh

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Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-13 09:14 +0100
  Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-13 12:29 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-13 22:44 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 04:38 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-14 03:00 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-14 11:08 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-14 23:05 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-15 01:28 +0200
          Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-14 19:59 -0400
          Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 03:00 -0400
            Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-15 11:45 -0400
        Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 02:56 -0400
          Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 13:32 +0100
            Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-16 00:28 +1000
              Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 16:30 +0100
              Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-16 02:19 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-16 20:20 +1000
                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-16 13:12 +0100
                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-17 01:33 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-17 00:59 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-17 10:51 +0100
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                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-17 20:57 +0100
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                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-18 10:59 +0100
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                Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 10:46 +0100
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