dean Wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Patrick Dixon wrote:
> > Dean, I don't think the Stereophile dither article you linked to is
> > quite analogous; it's refering to trunkating 24-bit sampled audio to
> > 16-bits - so you still have a full 16-bits of actual 'real' data.
> > With
> > the SB2 volume control situation however, the division process ('cos
> > that's what it actually is), is loosing the resolution of a 16-bit
> > sample at the lsbs.
> Think of it as truncating 32 bit audio at 24 bits. Same principles
> should apply, no?
Think of it as passing an analogue signal at half max amplitude through
a digital system, and then boosting the analogue output signal to
compensate - you will only have 90dBs s/n, rather than the theoretical
96dBs possible.
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Patrick Dixon
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