Julf wrote: > Intersample peaks are not a problem as long as you are in the digital > domain. They only become an issue if the analog stages after (or in) > your DAC have no headroom. It is very, very unusual for analog stages to > have no headroom - usually distortion just increases ever so slightly > when you exceed the nominal maximum signal. In any case, any problems > with headroom are a sign of bad design.
The problem is the oversampling that happens in the DAC. If you have say a 44kHz input it gets converted to a higher rate internally (still digital) and some of the new data points can be over 0db. See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98661-Some-observations-about-the-Benchmark-DAC1 Regards, Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98706 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
