Archimago;695323 Wrote: 
> If you feed a 16-bit computer generated -90dB undithered 'sine' wave,
> you're essentially feeding into the DAC a 1kHz (in this case) 1-bit
> *square* wave.  This is exactly what the measurements show.
> 

Despite my doubts and musings yesterday, I don't think so. What is the
difference between a sine wave and a square wave at -90db in 16 bit?
None. A 16/44 DAC should smooth this to a sine wave or an approximation
analoguely (I think this sinc function thingy is about this). A 24/96
DAC would upsample and interpolate the data points of this tone into a
smoothish sine wave shape (because in fact we can assume it's NOT a
square wave - a square wave would require an infinite series of
harmonics yet we know the data is band limited to satisfy Nyquist).

Please see here:
darrenyeats;695297 Wrote: 
> Phil,
> See these posts:
> Submitted by Miska on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:43.
> Submitted by Miska on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 02:48.
> Here: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Why-2496-not-24192
> (search for 'miska')
> 
Darren


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