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Regardless, there are potential sources of impairment implicit in any PCM system:
* Choosing a discrete value that is near but not exactly at the analog signal level for each sample leads to [[quantization error]]. When [[
* Between samples no measurement of the signal is made; the sampling theorem guarantees non-ambiguous representation and recovery of the signal only if it has no energy at frequency ''f<sub>s</sub>''/2 or higher (one half the sampling frequency, known as the [[Nyquist frequency]]); higher frequencies will not be correctly represented or recovered and add aliasing distortion to the signal below the Nyquist frequency.
* As samples are dependent on time, an accurate clock is required for accurate reproduction. If either the encoding or decoding clock is not stable, these imperfections will directly affect the output quality of the device.<ref group=note>A slight difference between the encoding and decoding clock frequencies is not generally a major concern; a small constant error is not noticeable. Clock error does become a major issue if the clock contains significant [[jitter]], however.</ref>
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