Phil Leigh;695305 Wrote: > Darren, > My head hurts... I think we are in a semantic loop :-) >
Yeah, you're probably right. The confusion comes because you stated there should be no jagged waveforms in digital audio, something which I agree with I guess. So I expected to see a smoothed output from these Stereophile plots...but I didn't! This was my initial query. What didn't help was that I was stuck in a 16/44 DAC paradigm yesterday (my bad) but I think we've got there in terms of explaining the Stereophile results. Phil Leigh;695305 Wrote: > > What EXACTLY do you think that Stereophile fig 5 trace shows you? A test of real 16/44 audio would have input a 16/44 file and the output would look quite different to what they measured I think - more smooth. What they did is not representative of 16/44 audio but a test to see how cleanly the DAC can deal with staircase type waveforms (with a resolution of 16 bits) in 24/96. You are quite right to say that no real music is encoded like that! And I've actually agreed with most of your comments, which makes me think we've been coming at it from different angles. Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB Touch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94054 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
