04-20-12: Kijanki
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Second nonsense is that digital filter can suppress 96dB within 4kHz without any problem. There is no filter in the world, digital or analog, that can do that (no matter how many poles) with even group delays (or linear phase if you prefer).
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not true! Here is a link to paper written by Dan Lavry of Lavry Engineering who wrote this paper in 1997 that shows a 500-tap FIR filter that has a passband of 15KHz & a transition band of 1KHz & stopband starting at 16KHz. The attenution achieved in the 1KHz transition is a whopping 100dB!! See page 3 of 7:
http://www.lavryengineering.com/white_papers/fir.pdfyeah, it came at a price: 88.2 million operations per second using a dedicated DSP. Very high # of MOPS but do-able.
If one opens the transition band to 4KHz like the paper referenced by the OP then I'm sure that the # of taps will come down.
The paper also goes not to say that the group delay of the FIR filter is flat all the way out to 15KHz.
here is another digital filter paper (from the AES) that shows brickwall digital FIR filters:
http://www.nanophon.com/audio/antialia.pdf.
it's possible to have these brickwall FIR filters with reasonable DSP capacity.