Currently, high-order IIR filters are used for decimation and fractional octave filters, and they are implemented as brute-force filtering, whereas it is advised to use series of biquads to achieve more stability (the use of floats instead of integers mitigates the issue).
Currently, high-order IIR filters are used for decimation and fractional octave filters, and they are implemented as brute-force filtering, whereas it is advised to use series of biquads to achieve more stability (the use of floats instead of integers mitigates the issue).