mswlogo;544022 Wrote: > When you turn it down in analog your noise floor goes down with it (for > the most part). When you turn it down in digital it does not !!
Not exactly - with digital attenuation, the noise floor of the recording does go down but the noise floor of the DAC stays fixed. I think this is the crux. I think the noise floor of the recording always swamps that of the DAC. This is certainly true of any recordings made before 1980, and most recordings made up to the point when the SONY PCM1 recorder stopped being state-of-the-art... I'd go further and bet that no recordings made until the late 90's achieved better that an 80dB noise floor. -- 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
