The above graph compares the amount of bytes generated by WaveTrace and traditional A/D converters. WaveTrace (shown in blue) produced 100,000 vectors per second - achieving a perfect wave reproduction as you will see below. Remember this is a 20Khz constant wave! It has to place a vector at each peak. At lower frequencies, however the amount of vectors per second will drop MUCH lower, relative to the frequency of the input. Since high frequency content accounts for only around 5% of an audio sample, we expect a smaller file size than the 44.1Khz A/D would generate while WaveTrace audio quality beats that of a 192Khz A/D converter!   Please scroll down for more.

At high frequencies you can notice the problem that is inherited in all sample based A/D converters; their output is not synchronized with the original waveform and the sample misses the waveform changes and peaks.

Even at DVD quality digital to analog conversion, the wave is still very far from being able to trace the original wave, misses the peaks and of course, the biggest problem is that it produces a huge file size.