[LAD] Does noiseshaping affect quantisation noise?

Jussi Laako jussi at sonarnerd.net
Sun Jun 13 10:21:03 UTC 2010


On 06/08/2010 12:10 AM, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> quantisation noise, making the latter irrelevant. If your A/D
> converter is 24 bit, then analog noise will always dominate,
> so again quantisation noise is irrelevant.

IMO, the important part is that practically none of the modern
converters, especially "24-bit" (or more) ones do the conversion in the
presentation they express towards the outside world. That is the actual
converter is not PCM nor has 24-bit resolution.

Quite typical cheap converter is 2-bit 128fs SDM using pretty hefty
noise shaping...

Using PCM in general for digital signal representation is mostly just a
convenience causing unnecessary extra trouble elsewhere.



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