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General

This Recommendation gives the characteristics of equipment for the coding of 7 kHz monophonic analogue sound-programme signals into a digital signal. Two monophonic digital signals can be combined to form a 320 kbit/s signal having a structure specified in Recommendation J.43.

Equipment for coding of analogue sound-programme signals, as specified in this Recommendation, can be:

a) A stand-alone encoder/decoder with a digital interface at 320 kbit/s. The encoder operation and the decoder operation may be performed in two separate equipments or in the same equipment.

b) A combined encoder-multiplex/decoder-demultiplex with a digital interface at 1544 or 2048 kbit/s. The encoder-multiplex operation and the decoder-demultiplex operation may be performed in two separate equipments or in the same equipment.

In case b) it is not mandatory to provide an external access at 320 kbit/s.