17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
2:51 p.m.
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:43, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
I would consider that a hardware bug - but you never know... If this
actually does happen, it would certainly cause a great deal of damage
with the kind of compression applied to most things these days.
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On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:56 +0200, Fons
Adriaensen wrote:
It could be. OTOH, most DACs today would upsample and filter before
the real conversion takes place, and could allow for this. But maybe
they don't, and just clip at that point. 'THE SAMPLES ARE NOT THE SIGNAL'. The
real peak level of a
signal when converted to the analog domain can be several
dB above that of the highest sample.
indeed. there are people who are coming to believe that
this "error" is responsible for a significant part of the audible
difference between digital and analog playback when the levels in
the source material are high.