This quiz covers the “Digital Audio, Part 2” web page.
Be able to answer the following questions.
How to Study for Quiz 8
- What is sampling resolution? What aspect of an audio signal does it affect?
- Which set of specifications gives the better sampling resolution: 48 kHz / 8-bit or 44.1 kHz / 16-bit?
- When converting from analog to digital, what process does the term quantization refer to?
- What is quantization error?
- How does the addition of a single bit of resolution affect the number of integers available for quantization?
- In a digital system, how does clipping happen?
- What are some commonly used bit depths?
- How much storage is required by two minutes of a stereo, CD-quality sound file? Explain your reasoning.
- Why is the MP3 format referred to as lossy compression?