Julf wrote: > I have to disagree. DACs should not have a concept of how recordings are > meant to be - they should just be able to cope with the worst case. > Intersample "overshoots" are not that hard to deal with. > > > > Indeed. How many of us play with volume at 100%?
Most people using the digital output uses 100% I think , that's how we learned to do it , should it not be bitperfect :) before the DAC . I have experimented with not using 100% volume before my digital processor to try to asses how it deals with this . Results are still inconclusive these bad recordings sounds so bad anyway it may be hard to tell if they sound even worse due to this . As the squeezebox uses 24 bit output for 99% of your typical content that is 16 bit they only get shifted a down to the next bit or so and you can experiment how your DAC behaves now . I actually agree about intersample overshoots , but actually a surprisingly large amount of typical chips does not deal with it or produce slightly less snr when programmed to do so ( the backside of incomplete measurement a silly hunt for specs ) . I think this have been debated elsewhere 3 to 10dB headroom have been suggested but it is apparently not commonly implemented ? Or is it ? I'm starting to get how really hard it is to come by good data in the audiophile world.... More off topic if you confirmed that your DAC has this problem set up a SoX rule and up sample with a slight volume decrease :) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87364 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
