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*** Your claim about signals near Nyquist is utterly wrong EXCEPT when you're so far up that the filter is removing the signal. ***

Perhaps before you accuse someone of being "utterly wrong" it may be worthwhile actually understanding the limitations of nyquist-shannon sampling theorem.

For the theorem to hold, samples have to be "infinitely valued". This is NOT the case for digital audio, where samples are finitely bounded as well as having finite precision.

It is possible to construct signals that accentuate the effects of quantization error that cannot be reconstructed correctly - not only from a practical perspective (assuming filter imperfections etc.) but also from a theoretical perspective (because they exploit the fact that the samples are quantised - hence failing one of the requisite conditions of the sampling theorem).

I'm not an idiot you know - I do have a degree in maths so and one of my first jobs was deriving numerical and analytical solutions for modelling exotic currency options.

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