Re: [LAU] digital voodoo: master fader should be set at 0db

On 04/10/2010 08:50 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote: i guess the reasoning is that any multiplication introduces rounding errors. i'm a little out of my depth here, so there may be errors, but my own private reasoning is as follows: we have 32 bit floats, with 23 bits of mantissa and a sign, which gives us 24 bits of precision, pretty much regardless of value range, thanks to floats being floats. multiplying two floats will introduce a rounding error in the least significant bit. that means it adds noise. at a level of -144dBFS. that means people will lose significant imaging clarity of the two mosquitoes fucking on their mike windscreen during the recording of that starting space shuttle. end of the world! bit transparency is all very cool as a tool to validate your signal chain is behaving, and there is not much reason not to be bit-transparent when everything is set to "bypass". in actual practice, it's another "oxygen-free" discussion perpetuated by people who buy cables with a preferred signal direction and 6k€ cd drives. if all those cable and bit transparency fetishists knew how reference classical recordings are produced, the whole discussion (and large parts of the high-end market) would go down in flames. best, jörn