Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!newman From: newman@utcsrgv.UUCP (Ken Newman) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD.sq.wave.response Message-ID: <1900@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 16:19:25 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1900 Posted: Fri Aug 5 16:19:25 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Aug-83 20:27:26 EDT References: <241@whuxk.UUCP>, <1256@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 7 It is true that listening to a signal generator at 7.4 kHz and switching between sine and square waves would reveal no audible difference, but this proves absolutely nothing! The speaker/headphone cannot reproduce the 7.4 kHz square wave accurately anyway, so you would NOT be comparing sine with square, but sine with sort-of-square-sine-almost. Transducers are not as nice as electronics. Square waves are nasty test signals.