"Justin Ulysses Morse" wrote in message
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Mike Rivers wrote:

I haven't given this any thought, so I'll just throw out the question
to ponder. Is it possible that time resolution between components of
a complex wave could be better with a higher sampler rate? Could the
phase relationship between the fundamental and, say, third harmonic
of a distorted guitar, be more accurately preserved at a higher
sample rate?

If my understanding is correct, and it's based mostly on what I read
here from I think Arny (but it makes perfect sense to me), then the
answer to your question is that yes, a higher sample rate (or a higher
bit rate for that matter) would improve that time resolution; but that
the resolution is already WAY higher than necessary. People assume
that the time-domain accuracy is one sample period; but it's really
one sample period divided by the quantization range. So the time
domain accuracy for CD audio would be 1/(44100*2^16) or 346
picoseconds. That's about a decimal place or two off of what I
vaguely remember Arny saying, so I've probably messed it up. But you
get the idea? I probably shouldn't be paraphrasing from memory, so
go back and read Arny's post from yesterday in one of these threads.

Bascially, you've the concept right.

Ditto what Jay said about dither, too. It inifinitizes things in both the
amplitude and time domain.