darrenyeats;289143 Wrote: > > Assuming an audible difference did exist between firmware > versions...the difference could have been due to a more significant > miscalculation instead of just a rounding error.
Yes, that's of course true, and I made clear before that I do not - and cannot - know precisely what changed in some particular firmware revision. My guess is Patrick is talking about this "bug" he filed: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2557 Although psychoanalysis is hard, you can see (in his comment #2) where his current confusion probably arises - he's conflating S/N (which indeed will get worse when you digitally attenuate) with the absolute level the "N" can ever get to. It's the latter that matters here. Patrick Dixon;289145 Wrote: > Good thinking, but there's still another explanation I reckon. You can make all the vague pronouncements you like, but -144db distortion is not audible, and the errors introduced by attenuating a 24 bit signal are always -144db down from max level. Therefore they are not audible, and if you think otherwise, you're wrong. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45736 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
