In Reply to: RE: Another reason to support DSD posted by Dr. S on July 13, 2007 at 23:08:26:
Yes, DSD behaves differently than PCM when amplitude exceeds full scale. But the noise increases exponentially, together with a corresponding loss of detail. And you end up with a bitstream that is illegal to master onto an SA-CD, so you need to reduce levels, which means processing the signal.
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Follow Ups
- Not necessarily - Christine Tham 00:35:15 07/14/07 (4)
- RE: Not unless you really abuse the upper limit - Dr. S 08:17:52 07/14/07 (3)
- Actually, our friend graemme says otherwise - Christine Tham 17:29:28 07/14/07 (2)
- RE: Actually, our friend graemme says otherwise - graemme 23:00:46 07/26/07 (0)
- RE: I learned something today, Illegal signals ... who would have thought? (NT) - Dr. S 18:56:52 07/14/07 (0)