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Moore’s Law and Digital Audio. What Have We Done with All the Transistors?

Authors: Eastty, Peter

AES Convention 117 · Paper 6278 · October 2004

Abstract

This paper investigates what has happened to the many transistors used in digital audio engineering. Improvements in signal quality have certainly accrued but advances in ease of use, reliability, availability, serviceability, power consumption, delay and cost have far outweighed, from a practical standpoint, advances in audio quality. Many examples are given, a novel signal visualization technique is described and, based upon the history some predictions are made.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 117
AES Convention
117
Paper number
6278
Publication date
October 6, 2004
Session subject
Signal Processing
Affiliation
Pro-Audio Lab, Sony, Oxford, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper