Wombat wrote: > Yes, thats how i mean it. > Never realized that myself. My older DAC based on BB PCM63k had for sure > more audible clipping on overcompressed recordings. I often heard that > when my tweeters puked. I noticed it became less when i switched to the > Transporter. Since i used its build in volume since day 1 i may have > solved that problem once and for all even without knowing about it :) > Benchmark introduced some feature in its DAC2 that " includes 3.5 dB of > headroom above 0 dBFS" whatever that means. Maybe some DACs these days > have this build in or they use some pre-defined volume drop.
That makes sense if one oversimplifies grossly a filter is a filter and the headroom is probably needed in the digital domain too , may explain why they operates at higher bitrates then the actual dac they serve in some cases ? or not . I have actually never delved into the finer details of filter design . But the effect is surely exaggerated on todays broken recordings , this was not a problem in the old days when real engineers did not clip the recordings or even left a conservative amount of headroom . The new benchmark sure looks interesting . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97483
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