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

UnsteadyKen wrote:
> 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.

You're welcome. But the big question is whether our friend Radium gets 
it too. I'm not holding my breath.

d