Re: What's the use of a 192 kHz sample rate?

On May 4, 1:14=A0am, dpl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dave Platt) wrote:
> In article <96fq141o7bh82pho575op2q1upefkq6...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Rick Lyons =A0<R.Lyons@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Randy,
> > =A0you remind me of the transistor radios when I was
> >kid (back when the air was clean, and *** was dirty).
> >If a transistor radio manufacturer could claim that
> >their radio had had more transistors than their competition,
> >then that was strong "selling point". =A0As such,
> >some transistor radio manufacturers were using transitors
> >in place of the diodes needed in AM demodulation.
> >So instead of having four transistors and one diode,
> >those manufacturers could claim "5-transistor performance",
> >in the hope of increasing sales. =A0Ha ha.
>
> I've read that there were some "7-transistor" radios, in which one or
> two of the transistors were soldered to unconnected pads on the board.
> They had no function at all, and they were often "floor sweeping"
> parts known to be defective... but they _were_ transistors and were
> present in the radio, and so the radio could be advertised (legally if
> not all that ethically) as a "7-transistor" model.

i thought i remembered even "10-transistor" radios.  i didn't know
this about the bogus addition of transistors (when i was older and
reflected on it, i just thought that it meant more stages in the RF,
IF, and AF signal chain or the use of some push-pull pairs.

if they were so bad as to solder in unused transistors, they should
have been clever enough to route the pads into the circuit board in
some non-functional way (leaving the transistor shorted and hanging
offa something, so it at least "looked" like it was being used for
something.

it's sorta like when someone slips in superfluous instructions in
their code so that they can later prove that it wasn't developed
independently if they find someone else selling a product with their
code in it.

r b-j