drmatt wrote: > The -90db signal, with a dithered source, would look more like a PWM > square wave until you put it through the high frequency bandpass filters > necessary for the given DAC's sample rate. > > No idea why they print these particular graphs, they are pretty > irrelevant. They don't seem to draw conclusions from them either.
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