Digital | Sebastian Spicker

2025

1 article

15 Aug 2025 From Oxide to Oversampling: The Physics of Recorded Sound ‘Analogue warmth’ and ‘digital coldness’ are not aesthetic preferences alone — they involve different physics. Magnetic tape saturates and compresses in level- and machine-dependent ways. Delta-sigma modulators push much quantisation noise out of band. Both effects are calculable. audiophysicssignal-processing