mswlogo;198673 Wrote: > Ok, I understand the SPDIF part. Actually I was talking about the volume function, but yes, this applies to the s/pdif link also.
> But if I have a 16bit wav file, and applied a normalization (not replay > gain, static normalization of the data). which may reduce it's volume > and it wrote out a new 16bit file, data is lost due to a "Volume > change". So if I converted that file to 24bit first then did > normalization it would unlikely lose any data. Correct? I can only guess what you mean by "unlikely" or "losing any data", but the only reason you would get more precision in the latter case is because the volume function you are describing happens to be designed to output 16-bits when given a 16-bit input. A volume function could just as easily generate 24 bits of output, or 137 bits for that matter, from a 16 bit input. There is nothing about padding the the input signal to a longer word which causes a more accurate output. Obviously if you truncate your result to 16 bits, it is less precise than if you have not truncated it. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34892 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
