Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
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> * Magic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 13 Oct 1999
> | You can't have a digital source that loud because the absolute highest
> | amplitude you can store is 0dB.
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> My understanding of it is that "0dB" is actually "infinity - 0dB", where
> "infinity" is the biggest number the recorder can handle (kinda like
> MAXINT). If oo - 0dB on the CD is greater than oo - 0dB on the recorder,
> then clipping can happen.
The peak amplitude is 0dB. There is no possibility of you ever going over 0dB
because that would be a clipped signal already. There is no way you can
represent a value over 0dB, it just can't happen, the electronics wont allow
it.
> It is not supposed to happen, but it does appear to be happening. The ~90
> other CDs I have copied with the same hardware sound fine. Analog playback
> of the CD in question sounds fine. An analog recording of the CD sounds
> fine. Clipping only happens when I make a digital copy of that particular
> disc, and it happens with both Sony and Sharp recorders.
>
> Go fig.
Whatever is causing the symptoms is not clipping.
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