fix: MP3 recordings carried a hiss the WAV of the same audio did not
The operator split it in one test: WAV is fine, MP3 is not. The MP3 path is the only one that resamples — 16 kHz up to 32 kHz, because the encoder emits broken frames at MPEG-2 rates — and it did so by averaging neighbouring samples. That is an upsampler in name only. Every component at f is mirrored to 16 kHz − f, and the test measures the mirror just 7 dB below the wanted signal: a second copy of the whole spectrum. On speech it adds brightness; on receiver noise, which is broadband, it lays a second noise floor over the top of the band. Hence "a hiss that is not the QRM, louder than the voice" — and hence its absence from the WAV, which resamples nothing. Zero-stuffing plus a 63-tap windowed sinc at the old Nyquist puts the image 56.8 dB down instead of 7, at a cost measured in microseconds against the MP3 encode that follows. Two tests pin it: the image suppression, and that the level is unchanged — a fix that quietly halved every recording would be a second surprise on top of the one being repaired.
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"The \"From radio\" and mic levels take effect as you drag the slider, and the RX level now applies to what you HEAR through OpsLog, not only to recordings.",
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"The padlocks on frequency, band, mode and times no longer flicker under the pointer and refuse the click.",
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"The callsign field is wider, taking the room from the RST pair.",
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"QSO recordings are no longer swamped by hiss: the audio was resampled with the cheap converter, folding everything above 8 kHz back onto the voice."
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"MP3 recordings no longer carry a hiss of their own: the 16→32 kHz conversion mirrored the whole spectrum only 7 dB down. It is now 57 dB down."
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"Les filtres du cluster gagnent NEW POTA et NEW COUNTY, à côté des pastilles de statut existantes.",
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"Les niveaux « From radio » et micro agissent pendant que vous déplacez le curseur, et le niveau RX s'applique désormais à ce que vous ENTENDEZ dans OpsLog, pas seulement aux enregistrements.",
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"Les cadenas de fréquence, bande, mode et heures ne scintillent plus sous le curseur et acceptent le clic.",
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"Le champ indicatif est plus large, la place venant de la paire RST.",
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"Les enregistrements de QSO ne sont plus noyés par le souffle : l'audio était rééchantillonné avec le convertisseur économique, qui repliait tout ce qui dépasse 8 kHz sur la voix."
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"Les enregistrements MP3 ne portent plus un souffle qui leur est propre : la conversion 16→32 kHz recopiait tout le spectre à seulement 7 dB en dessous. Il est désormais à 57 dB."
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