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Re: Um...

Thanks Steve. I also asked a friend who's in the digital audio field and he said the same:


Nope. The smallest possible signal is a single quantum (eg,
0 to 1) and the largest 2^16, regardless of whether the
encoding is signed or not, hence a 96 dB dynamic range.

The signal +/- 1 is twice as big as the smallest possible
signal.

It doesn't match my intuitive thinking about how the signal is represented (ie +/- 1), but I guess my intuition is wrong :-)

JohnR


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  • Re: Um... - JohnR 14:36:10 12/30/01 (1)
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