[comp.dsp] THETA DSP Seminar

sheppard@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Sheppard) (08/24/90)

According to the latest dB Audio newsletter (dBrief Summer 1990) - THETA
will hold a free seminar with a demonstration and discussion of THETA's
digital processors. Designer Mike Moffitt will speak. For those of us in the
bay area who are interested in audio digital signal processing this might be
interesting.

Details:

THETA digital signal processor seminar
Thursday, August 30, 1990 8pm

Place:

dB Audio
2573 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, Ca. 94704
(415) 548 8733

tom@mills.berkeley.edu (Thomas Richard Erbe) (08/28/90)

In article <7070003@hpnmdla.HP.COM> sheppard@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Sheppard) writes:
"THETA digital signal processor seminar
 Thursday, August 30, 1990 8pm"

What is the THETA digital signal processor?  What is its intended use?

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tom erbe * technical director * center for contemporary music * mills college
  tom@mills.berkeley.edu * po box 9201, oakland, ca  94613 * (415) 430-2191

jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi) (08/31/90)

>
>What is the THETA digital signal processor?  What is its intended use?
>--
>tom erbe * technical director * center for contemporary music * mills college
>  tom@mills.berkeley.edu * po box 9201, oakland, ca  94613 * (415) 430-2191

    The THETA digital signal processor is an outboard D/A converter to
be used with CD players having digital output capabilities.  This $2000
box uses a couple of 56001's to interpolate 7 more points in between the
normal 44.1kHz sampled data on the CD.  When used with a stable CD transport
system, this box, and others like it (e.g. Wadia, Meridian), is supposed
to give a smoother, more realistic, less strident, less 'digital' sounding
analog signal (according to review in Stereophile magazine 8/90.)