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9-27-2004


Todd Caswell
509-374-2820



How a CD Player Works

Description


First, a digital signal is read from the CD and then convolved with a pulse function in the D/A converter. The result in the time domain looks like this:


Description


Let's look at this result in frequency space. Note that convolution in time means multiplication in frequency.


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where

The low pass filter then knocks the high frequencies out of the signal coming from the D/A converter, which smoothes out the edges of the reproduced sine wave in time. This output waveform then drives the speaker, thereby recreating the original sound stored on the CD.

Contributing Authors:

Todd Caswell

Aric Goe