I haven't got time to get deeply into this a the moment but: 1) if you can only hear a very very quiet sound with your ear pressed against a driver I can absolutely guarantee you can't hear it at all at 1 metre/3 feet away. The inverse square rule sees to that.
2) any sound in the 3 least significant bits is going to be totally masked by other higher level sounds >99.9% of the time. This is partially why good MP3 can be VERY hard to detect... 3) The sound simply does not collapse into a catastrophically dynamic range limited, noisy mess if the digital volume is not at 100. You have to go way lower than that... Final thought. You are listening to a track. It starts to fade out. Does the sound quality collapse or does it just get quieter. You know how that fade was achieved? ...yes you've guessed... 4) I don't care if my DAC can only resolve to 20-bits since the best ADC's in the world struggle to get 20-bits of usable signal. The bottom 4 bits are always just noise... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
