Spin wrote: > Just searched through the thread at DIY Audio and the designers actual > words are 'I decided on 28 bit, to have headroom for a perfect digital > volume control. At -72 db volume you still have 16 bit resolution with > perfect linearity thanks to the sign magnitude architecture'. Whether > that makes sense I guess that you would know better than I.
Unfortunately it does not really make sense. Yes, 72 dB is 12 bits, so "giving up" 12 bits to the volume control still leaves you with 16 bits - but what is the point, if you are only 4 bits above the noise floor? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105769 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
