cliveb;141931 Wrote: > I'm sorry, but I don't understand this. Suppose you digitally attenuate > a signal by, say, 24dB. How can you avoid losing the bottom 4 bits?But if > those bottom 4-bits are zeros anyway (as they will be for a 16-bit signal in a 24-bit space), when you lose them you don't lose any actual (digital) resolution.
cliveb;141931 Wrote: > Or are you saying that, within the SB3, any attenuation less than 30dB > is not done digitally, but is done instead by adjusting the analogue > gain of the DAC's output circuitry?No - the volume commands sent to the SB3 > by slimserver, are specially tailored to avoid rounding above -30db. Below -30db it's not possible to avoid the rounding and keep reasonable steps between each volume level (ie adjacent volume levels would have to be the same). HTH, it's a complicated thing to explain or understand! -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28133 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
