Home Digital Drive

Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

Re: changing word length

Yes , there are benefits especially if any other processing is done on the signal. As an example , if you had the no 23 and divided it by 2 , the result is 11.5 , if you only had 2 spaces to store that result you could either store 11 or 12 , both of which are incorrect. Should you have an extra space , you can store 11.5. any subsequent operations would use the correct result.
You would still have to downconvert at some stage back to 2 spaces but the figure you get will not be as innacurate due to multiple rounding up/off due to the lack of "space" - this is simplistic but it does illustrate the point.
No operation on a digital signal is trivial , there are definite sonic changes in changing word length , if you have a unit like a Meridian 518 , you can change all sorts of things like wordlength , dither alorithyms etc and store these and directly compare. Differences are obvious in this case.

Rodney Gold


This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Kimber Kable  


Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
  • Re: changing word length - Rodney Gold 20:53:00 05/31/05 (0)


You can not post to an archived thread.