seanadams;198672 Wrote: > I think I follow what you're trying to say there, but it does not apply. > The volume function is always 24 bits wide. It doesn't know or care > whether the lower 8 bits are "used", and all 24 bits of output are > meaningful regardless of the input word length. > > > > That's exactly right, if you drop the word "effectively". There is no > "effectively". It's precisely the same operation, not merely the same > result. The _input signal_ in either case is precisely the same.
Ok, I understand the SPDIF part. But if I have a 16bit wav file, and applied a normalization (not replay gain, static normalization of the data). which may reduce it's volume and it wrote out a new 16bit file, data is lost due to a "Volume change". So if I converted that file to 24bit first then did normalization it would unlikely lose any data. Correct? On a similar topic, do plugins like the room correction also work in 24bit (when fed 16bit wave file)? -- mswlogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34892 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
