x oversampling cd player hello i just bought a new portable cd player for the office and i notice that it proudly proclaims times oversampling on the box now while i think i understand what oversampling is the rate of discrete samples exceeds the highest frequency component of interest by some factor i don t understand this times business it seems to me that when i bought my first cd player was it really years ago the specs said times could someone please tell me whether i m getting senile if i m not then what good does it do for the player to take samples at a higher rate if i really wanted better fidelity wouldn t i have to have the same higher rate of sampling during the recording process furthermore am i wrong in interpreting the sampling rate from the player s point of view as being the same thing as the data rate for the bit stream coming off the optical medium does this mean that the data rate related to the rotational speed of the disk has changed since i m so confused cliff clifford bowman box russellville ar hcb netcom com i m pretty sure the world isn t fair if it were i d be a lot worse off n tju
