darrenyeats;695307 Wrote: > Yeah, you're probably right. > > You stated there should be no jagged waveforms in digital audio. And > actually that sounded sensible. 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 native 16/44 DAC paradigm > yesterday (brain burp) so I was questioning (wrongly) whether analogue > smoothing really happens. But I think we've got there in terms of > explaining the Stereophile results. > > 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 > simulated 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
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