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* Magic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 14 Oct 1999
| The peak amplitude is 0dB.
"Infinity" -0dB.
| There is no possibility of you ever going over 0dB because that would be
| a clipped signal already.
If "infinity" on unit A is higher than "infinity" on unit B, then signal
that is below A's peak will be above B's peak.
| There is no way you can represent a value over 0dB, it just can't happen,
| the electronics wont allow it.
Exactly. If you stuff a 17-bit number into a 24-bit register, there is no
problem. But if you then take that 17-bit number and stuff it into a
16-bit register, you will overflow the register.
[...]
| Whatever is causing the symptoms is not clipping.
The symptom is apparantly indistinguishable from clipping. If it walks
like a duck....
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