Chris, > > On IEEE 32 bit floats the mantissa is 23 bit, so there might be > > situations where you loose the LSB. > And that was the only point - a "pro audio chain" should be able to > support "digital wire" capability.
This has nothing to do with the original poster's issues, so I changed the subject. There's a reason why people work with floats. And it's not because you want to preserve the LSB in case you have a signal that uses a full 24 bit dynamic range. [If you take a good studio ADC, they have an SNR of 118dB, that would be less than 20 bits. A very good studio grade DAC would have a 120dB SNR, that's 20 bits, too.] So, please tell me - how should a 'pro audio chain' look like? Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key 6C002249 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
