On 06/08/2010 12:10 AM, [email protected] wrote: > quantisation noise, making the latter irrelevant. If your A/D > converter is 24 bit, then analog noise will always dominate, > so again quantisation noise is irrelevant.
IMO, the important part is that practically none of the modern converters, especially "24-bit" (or more) ones do the conversion in the presentation they express towards the outside world. That is the actual converter is not PCM nor has 24-bit resolution. Quite typical cheap converter is 2-bit 128fs SDM using pretty hefty noise shaping... Using PCM in general for digital signal representation is mostly just a convenience causing unnecessary extra trouble elsewhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
