Re: [music-dsp] Combining ADCs/DACs to increase bit depth?

2014-04-27 Thread STEFFAN DIEDRICHSEN
Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 25.04.2014 um 18:26 schrieb Joe Farrish joseph_...@hotmail.com: Combining ADCs/DACs to increase bit depth? I was wondeing if anyone has done this or if it is even possible. -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and

Re: [music-dsp] Combining ADCs/DACs to increase bit depth?

2014-04-27 Thread STEFFAN DIEDRICHSEN
There are some popular examples: Yamaha DX-7 Here, the reference voltage of a 12 bit DAC is tied to an R2R network with seven voltages, that are 2^n apart. This way, they achieved 19 bits resolution, but linearity was crazy off, although it contributed largely to the sound. Roland D-50.

Re: [music-dsp] Combining ADCs/DACs to increase bit depth?

2014-04-27 Thread Theo Verelst
robert bristow-johnson wrote: ... the thread Subject is a bit ambiguous. Right, and I wouldn't hold my breath about the compensating the analogs in the digital domain, unless one clearly knows what one is doing. The trend with increasing capacity of the electronics of course is to go