adamdea;630575 Wrote: > Yes I did read it. In fact I specifically referred to the fact that it > was having to digitise the output as the reason why i doubted that the > OP had any relevance to distortion due to quantisation. That was > exactly my point about why that method didn't make much sense for > evaluating the resolution of a system at the limit. See also post 62. I > have repeatedly said that I find it unlikely that you will get much out > of it. You have worked out that it is comparing two digital files? How > much higher do you think the resolution of the adc will be than that of > the 16 bit dithered file you are assessing. Unless the whole chain has a > lot more than 105db of snr I can't possibly see how it could evaluate > the ability of a 16 bit dithered file to contain information below the > noise floor. > > What about the quantisation effects in that adc and the noise and > distortion in the dac and amp? > > I am guessing that the effects we were discussing are almost* certainly > going to be buried in noise and distortion in chain.
I assume the DAC used would be 24 bit. That should be sufficient to evaluate a 16 bit source. Terry -- TerryS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87175 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
