Andrew Hobgood wrote:
> > | No, the LSB gets dropped and you still end up with a signal that will not
> > | overflow the register. All that happens is you lose the extra 1 bit
> > | resolution from the LSB end.
> >
> > And this is significantly different from "clipping" in what way? Loss of
> > data is loss of data, no matter how you try to spin it.
>
> Well, clipping manifests itself as chopping the MSB (bit or bits, depending
> on the severity of clipping) because the incoming signal has a range far
> beyond the sampling range of the A/D converter.
I just suddenly remembered something about digital sound data - the MSB is a sign
bit. If you imagine a sine wave being fed into a system that chopped the MSB, i
would turn into an 'm' shape..... and it still wouldn't clip.
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