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Which coder design choice improves quality without raising the bit rate?

  • A.Raising the sampling rate above twice the signal bandwidth
  • B.Adding a second regenerator midway along the transmission path
  • C.Non-uniform spacing of the quantisation levels
  • D.Doubling the number of uniformly spaced levels available

Answer: C

Non-uniform spacing, which companding implements, puts fine steps where the signal spends most of its time and coarse steps where it rarely goes, improving the perceived ratio at no cost in bits. Doubling the levels and raising the sampling rate both increase the rate. And a regenerator addresses path noise rather than coder quality. Matching a quantiser to the signal's own statistics is free in bandwidth terms and is the first place to look for an improvement.

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