Re: [LAD] FULL audio-signal path

Hi, Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: This one doesn't use either double nor float :-) But you want to keep this part of the chain as high-quality or at least as short as possible. Even if the drivers would expose it as doubles, it is still quantified which is best represented as integers. Most (all?) drivers present the soundcard io as integers. With jack the internal processing is done in floating point numbers. This leaves some quantification-steps but these are _much_ smaller than any soundcard can reproduce and only affect you when you do some very serious amplification or something like that... This is integer again with fixed bit-depth. Again you will want to keep the path from your soundcard to the speakers as short and high-quality as possible. The AD/DA-steps are lossy. Depending on the quality of the converters and the used samplingrate and bitdepth it is sometimes more lossy and sometimes less. And there is always the question of improvements being better than the human ear can hear (see the ongoing discussions about 48/96/192). Use integer calculations as few as possible (unless you know exactly what you are doing). Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...