oshcar wrote: > ok > took me a bit but i think i get it > > what happens when volume is reduced by software if you dont mind
ahah, feels like you're playing Socrates, all this sounds a bit like a trick ;) I'll make a lot of shortcuts : 16 bits source audio gives you ~6dB/bit = 96dB SignalToNoise - SNR (if I remember correctly your old Vinyl is 60-70). If you apply soft volume, your SNR will decrease accordingly to the ratio you apply, i.e. maybe around ~20dB for mid-volume. You might not lose these if you send them to a 24 bits DAC but don't forget that now you have an analogue signal which is 10~20 times less (0.05~0.1V instead of 1V) and then you have to make sure that that this potential benefit is not lost in the rest of your chain (how much noise it brings back when amplifying more to get you to a comfortable level). So padding does not add anything, there is no extra information created. Now if you want to transform (divide) the input, for sure we are back to the initial comment that larger integers are needed for interim calculation and your 24 bits DAC falls under that. When adding all the rest will it be noticeably better... oh well, then this thread should probably move to the audiophile one which is not for me :) LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114947 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
