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+ Join us on Monday, July 25th at 6pm in the MC Comfy Lounge for an + exciting prof talk by Richard Mann on Open Source Computer Sound + Measurement. The abstract for the talk is below. We will follow + this up by an EOT event with dinner and board games! + Last event of the term, get hype. +

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+An ideal computer audio system should faithfully reproduce signals of +all frequencies in the audible range (20 to 20,000 cycles per second). +Real systems, particularly mobile devices and laptops, may still +produce acceptable quality, but often have a limited response, +particularly at the low (bass) frequencies. + +Sound/acousic energy refers to time varying pressure waves in air. +When recording sound, the acoustic signal will be picked up by +microphone, which converts it to electrical signals (voltages). The +signal is then digitized (analog to digital conversion) and stored as +a stream of numbers in a data file. On playback the digital signal is +converted to an electrical signal (digital to analog conversion) and +finally returned as an acoustic signal by a speaker and/or headphones. + +In this talk I will present open source software (Octave/Linux) to +measure the end-to-end frequency response of an audio system using the +Discrete Fourier Transform. I will demonstrate the software using a +standard USB audio interface and a consumer grade omnidirectional +microphone. + +This is joint work with John Vanderkooy, Distinguished Professor +Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy. +

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