Mnyb wrote: > Misconception . I don't think you can say that all DAC's have this > problem but an unknown ratio of them do have this problem but are they > really badly designed ? In retrospect they are bad designs , but the > signals presented by today's music is not " meant to be" if you ask some > old school audio engineer ? What gives ?
If you ask a really old school audio engineer, he (invariably a he) would have said that Jimi Hendrix' music was not "meant to be" - all that horrible distortion! :) Intersample interpolation is not caused by overly compressing the signal - but simply by exceeding the maximum signal amplitude limit. You could cause it by a single, uncompressed sine tone that has too much amplitude for your digital channel. That is why Philips actually specified a lower-than-full-signal limit for the original CD specification, but very quickly gave up on trying to enforce it. But let's be clear - we all (well, except for callesoroe) agree that the simple solution is to turn down the valume/gain a little bit, and that is all that replay gain does. > 3. You can use an unfiltered nos DAC sans interpolation filters :P but > give many any "bad" DAC instead and I happily employ -6dB digitally . There are no totally unfiltered NOS DACs - the filtering just happens somewhere further down the chain, and if the components down he chain can't handle the signal amplitude, you still get clipping. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104121 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
