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How does a stereo decoder recover the two channels?

  • A.It detects the envelope of the 38 kHz subcarrier
  • B.It compares the phase of the pilot against the audio
  • C.It matrixes the sum and difference signals
  • D.It filters the left channel from the lower sideband

Answer: C

Adding and subtracting the recovered sum and difference signals gives the left and right channels directly, which is why the multiplex encodes them that way rather than as two separate audio bands. The channels are not separable by sideband. Envelope detection fails on a suppressed-carrier signal. And the pilot serves only to regenerate the subcarrier. The matrix at each end is the elegance of the scheme.

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