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What is the effect of increasing the number of quantisation levels?

  • A.No change to either the noise or the bit rate required
  • B.Less quantisation noise but a higher bit rate
  • C.Less quantisation noise at an unchanged bit rate
  • D.A lower bit rate but greater sensitivity to channel noise

Answer: B

More levels means finer steps and so less quantisation noise, but each sample needs more bits and the rate rises accordingly - six decibels bought for one bit per sample. There is no way to have the improvement without the rate increase in a uniform coder, which is exactly why companding exists: it redistributes a fixed number of bits rather than adding more. Every improvement in a digital coder is paid for in bit rate, and the only question is what the bits buy.

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