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The same link develops sharp clicks that grow more frequent as the path degrades. What does this indicate?

  • A.Quantisation noise from too coarse a coder
  • B.Slope overload in the coder's tracking loop
  • C.Aliasing of components above half the sampling rate
  • D.Bit errors on the transmission path

Answer: D

Clicks that track path quality are bit errors: a corrupted bit changes a sample's value abruptly and the decoder reproduces that jump faithfully. Quantisation noise is a steady hiss unaffected by the path. Slope overload distorts loud, fast passages rather than producing isolated clicks. And aliasing produces spurious tones. Whether a symptom follows the path or follows the signal is the single most informative observation about a digital link. The parameter that varies and the parameter that does not are worth naming before any substitution is attempted.

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