adamdea;578793 Wrote: 
> I have been studying this quite carefully as there are lots of useful
> points. I promise it wasn't point 1 I was missing and I don't think it
> was point 3 although I guess I do find the terms resolution and
> precision confusing. (I have been puzzling over the question of what
> the precision of an analogue system is) 
> 
> I also undertake never to allow my mind to wander into visual
> analogies. 
> What I am getting confused about is what happens when a sound (which,
> obviously as you point out, has an amplitude that varies over time)gets
> louder and softer. Let's assume there is no other sound in the
> recording. If the sound (is it allowed to be a sine wave?) varies in
> amplitude between 128 and 32- xxx...10000000 and xxxx....00100000
> and it became louder so that the peak amplitude was 2048
> xxx....100000000000, what would be the number which now represents the
> minimum amplitude of this wave? Would it be 1952 (11110100000 ?) or
> something else?  
> I have a feeling that if I could grasp this I could understand the
> point.
I'm sorry, and don't take this bad.  I don't want you recording me if I
become famous.  It won't happen unless I die in an outstanding way but
still.


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