In Reply to: Welcome to the party . . . posted by Martin419 on June 26, 2004 at 17:40:42:
even my old copy of Cool Edit does all processing internally at 32 bits floating point.So does your Denon DVD-A11.
Other packages will also do 32-bit integer, but i prefer 32-bit floating.
The new Intel HD Audio specification (in their latest generation 915/925 chipsets) will process up to 8 channels of audio at 192/32.
Unfortunately, none of the first generation motherboards implement the spec very well, using either the C-Media 9880 codec (SNR only 92 dB - less than 16 bits resolution!) or the RealTek ALC880 (100dB SNR DACs, but ADC hobbled to 20 bit at 85 dB SNR)
I was hoping to upgrade my HTPC to the latest chipset, but now it looks like i will need to wait a bit longer.
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- 32-bit (floating point) is available to anyone ... - Christine Tham 22:42:24 06/26/04 (1)
- Re: 32-bit (floating point) is available to anyone ... - Martin419 01:17:16 06/27/04 (0)