On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:43, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:56 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > > 'THE SAMPLES ARE NOT THE SIGNAL'. The real peak level of a > > > signal when converted to the analog domain can be several > > > dB above that of the highest sample. > > > > indeed. there are people who are coming to believe that > > this "error" is responsible for a significant part of the audible > > difference between digital and analog playback when the levels in > > the source material are high. > > It could be. OTOH, most DACs today would upsample and filter before > the real conversion takes place, and could allow for this. But maybe > they don't, and just clip at that point.
I would consider that a hardware bug - but you never know... If this actually does happen, it would certainly cause a great deal of damage with the kind of compression applied to most things these days. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --'
