recently, I was messing around in the control panel to try to check my speakers. I managed to find the audio sample rate, which shows options from 44100 hz to 192000hz. there were also audio bit depth, but I don’t know either of those. what is audio sample rate? and maybe also what is audio bit depth?
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Audio is analog. If a computer is involved, it has to be converted between analog and digital.
Imagine a audio curve going up and down.
The distance between the highest peak and lowest valley needs to be devided into distinct values.
The more values/bits are available, the closer it gets to the wave.
The sample rate is how to divide the wave horizontaly. 1hz would mean looking where the wave is every second. So the tone would only change ever, second. The more values/hz per second are used, the closer it gets to the wave.
Getting to the original analog wave would basically need infinitely many values in both axis.
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