Re: [linux-audio-dev] float a/d (was Linux support for IEEE1394 mLAN?)

[Juhana Sadeharju]

>>But aren't standard high quality 24 bit DACs enough ?
>
>My question to software developers is; is an all float software
>environment desirable enough to warrant a/d with native float output?

If that moves an int to/from float conversions to hardware, it might be
a good idea. I'm not sure how expensive the conversions are with respect
to the main DSP stuff: if it is only 1% of all processing, then we might
want to have or not to have the conversions in hardware.

What is a high quality 24-bit DAC? Or ADC? Last I checked the 24-bit only
means the width of the data port, not the quality.

Regards,

Juhana