Khuli Wrote: > I maybe missing something here, but aren't digital signals limited > anyway to the maximum number of bits in the signal? > > I was under the impression that (digital) peak limiters were used to > prevent excessive clipping when amplifying signals or recording from an > analogue source, not for output protection...An analog peak limiter is > usually used before the A/D converter so that you don't get garbage for a digital signal. Because as you may guess, if you exceed the signal level that digital can represent, that data is gone. There is no way to peak limit data that did not get captured.
Similarly, for D/A, unless have calibrated the analog gain stages, running a digital peak limiter is of marginal utility. Hence most peak limiting is done in the analog domain. What I was referring to was for digital-to-digital. If you are outputting a digital signal and you see something that is "bad data", you should filter it, not send it. In the old SB there was no way to fix these bugs because they were part of a non-programmable chip. I was told in the new SB models that these bugs are fixable. -- enduser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ enduser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18818 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
