Re: Does aliasing ever occur in non-electronic analog audio devices?

Don Pearce  said:

>  Aliasing is a 
> result of ambiguity in the shape of a signal. Any signal that is 
> continuous has no ambiguity, it is totally defined. A signal that is 
> sampled has gaps between the samples in which it is impossible to know 
> what the signal was doing; those gaps are the area of ambiguity that 
> permits aliasing. An alias is simply an alternative trajectory that will

> fit the sampled points as well as any other.
> 
> 
A superbly lucid and concise explanation, Don.

This dimwit is greatly enlightened, thank you.
-- 
Ken