In this preferred embodiment of the invention, a transform coder adapts the transform, and the analysis/synthesis window pair, and the block length while retaining transform properties of complete aliasing cancellation in {HEAD ~ the absence} of coefficient quantization errors and {TAIL ~ critical sampling} 
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In this preferred embodiment of the invention , a transform coder adapts the transform , and the analysis / synthesis window pair , and the block length while retaining transform properties of complete aliasing cancellation in { HEAD ~ the absence } of coefficient quantization errors and { TAIL ~ critical sampling }
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