What does PCM mean? Used to have a Marantz PCM player, sold it for £70 on ebay, even though it was fuct.
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What does PCM mean? Used to have a Marantz PCM player, sold it for £70 on ebay, even though it was fuct.
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Pulse Code Modulation. All CDs are encoded in PCM. DSD/SACD is different, it's been described as "PDM" although there is some argument around that.
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What does Pulse Code Modulation mean?Originally Posted by Lawrence001
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It's basically the way the analogue waveform is reconstructed from the bits (pulses) in the datastream. Think the classic picture of a bar chart approximating a sine wave - the more bits the bigger the bar.
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The analogue signal has just three properties - frequency, amplitude and phase - the sampling frequency determines the highest frequency that can be encoded, bit depth determines the maximum amplitude that can be encoded.
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