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Loved his articles, very sad news. RIP Gilbert

Only Elvis sold more R & R records in the 50's https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/fats-domino-giant-talent-inspired-ska-beatles-bling-89-boogie-woogie http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41753839

From the urban dictionary:- A geezer is a descriptive word in the UK which is used to define a mans characteristics. A geezer will be found usually out side a pub with a pint in his hand on match day. They commonly like football, scrapping, beer, tea, tits, and Barry white. Geezers often acknowledge other geezers by a greeting each other by saying geezer followed by a nod and a thumbs up. Nigel: Alright geezer how much is a can of red stripe Charles: For you nothing my friend because your a top geezer Nigel: arr Cheers geeze *nod* *thumbs up* Charles: *nod* *thumbs up*

I think you missed the Frank Sinatra connection Chris

This is good. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/tom-petty-fan-greats-followed-footsteps/

Unfortunately it is true. Tom has gone. So sad. RIP.

Steely Dan, one of the greatest bands of all times. Very sad news, 67 is too soon. RIP Walter

This thread has cleared up my misconceptions on the accuracy achievable with normal sampling methods, and I thank Jud, esldude and others for taking the time. I am now left pondering why MQA use a different sampling method. From their wiki page:- "One more difference to standard formats is the sampling process. The audio stream is sampled and convolved with a triangle function, and interpolated later during playback. The techniques employed, including the sampling of signals with a finite rate of innovation, were developed by a number of researchers over the preceding decade, including Pier Luigi Dragotti and others." Does anyone have an explanation ( none cynical please)?

If you read Bob Stuarts Audio Engineering Society Convention Paper 9178 ( sorry no link ) the "triangular" filter ( actually a b spline kernel, whatever that is), they do actually claim it can resolve starting points between samples because the samples overlap. There is also some mention of this in one of their patents, unfortunately the diagrams are missing:- https://www.google.com/patents/WO2014108677A1

Have you read their paper thar includes the triangular sampling? That is where they claim to be get better temporal accuracy in the ADC. The filtering is another part of their process. I haven't heard any MQA'd music yet. I have a feeling I am going to be underwhelmed! Sent from my Nexus 7 using Computer Audiophile mobile app

I see what you are saying. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Computer Audiophile mobile app

Jud, Are you sure? I am not asking if it can resolve the frequencies but where within the width of the sampling pulse the transient starts. MQA dont seem to think it can be done, that´'s why they have come up with different sampling and filtering methods

Yes, but can you resolve where the transient started within one 44Khz sample to the accuracy you were able to shift the constant sine wave in your example? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Computer Audiophile mobile app

Your example is for a constant running sine wave. It does not address the issue of resolving where in a sample a transient starts. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Computer Audiophile mobile app

Bob Stuart stated more than once in the Q & A on here that MQA does not use apodizing filters, yet many people on this thread are stating that it does. It would be good to get some clarification on this.