Terry, here's another way of looking at this: Quantisation error in sampling causes distortion which is correlated to the input signal. That's a fact which cannot be avoided.
If the noise floor of the input signal is below the quantisation level, then that correlated distortion is a distortion of the programme material, which is undesirable. On the other hand, if the noise floor of the input signal is above the quantisation level then the quantisation error creates distortion of the noise rather than the programme material. And because noise is random, distorted noise is just noise. Therefore the distorted sampled representation of the input signal has no distortion that is correlated to the programme material. Which is less undesirable than the first case above. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89733 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
