In Reply to: RE: -75 dB posted by tomservo on June 25, 2014 at 13:23:21:
As far as I could tell, the levels were matched to a tiny fraction of a dB, i.e. to all the significant digits displayed by Soundforge. This was surprisingly good for analog comparisons. A slight drift in temperature could cause a gain differences needed to get a better null. One thing that I noted was that the two files were perfectly synchronized. This indicates that the DAC and the ADCs involved were run off of a common clock for both runs. Otherwise, there would have been clock drift across the file with the samples going in/out of phase.
I've done a lot of null tests, usually digital to digital involving comparison of sample rate conversions of one sort or another. These rarely give 75 dB nulls, even when there is no theoretical reason for a null to be more than a few dB from the resolution given by the bit depth. (An example is resampling 44.1 to 88.2 and back to 44.1. Getting good nulls was impossible due to sub-sample delays in the filters, fractional gain errors, phase shifts and filter pass-band ripple. Eventually, I figured out how to do this kind of conversion without excessive error, except in the pathological cases where there was energy too close to Fs/2.)
Tony Lauck
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- RE: -75 dB - Tony Lauck 14:16:08 06/25/14 (14)
- RE: -75 dB - tomservo 06:46:49 06/26/14 (13)
- RE: -75 dB - Tony Lauck 08:11:40 06/26/14 (12)
- RE: -75 dB - pictureguy 12:08:56 07/07/14 (9)
- RE: -75 dB - b.l.zeebub 13:41:11 07/07/14 (8)
- RE: -75 dB - pictureguy 13:55:30 07/07/14 (7)
- RE: -75 dB - b.l.zeebub 15:13:13 07/07/14 (6)
- RE: -75 dB - pictureguy 15:36:21 07/07/14 (5)
- Directionality - Old nuff 2 no better 19:50:15 09/02/14 (4)
- RE: Directionality - pictureguy 16:59:36 04/26/15 (1)
- RE: Directionality - geoffkait 08:19:59 01/31/16 (0)
- That's weird. - geoffkait 01:31:05 09/03/14 (1)
- RE: That's weird. - Old nuff 2 no better 08:05:42 09/03/14 (0)
- RE: -75 dB - b.l.zeebub 12:40:35 06/26/14 (0)
- RE: -75 dB - tomservo 11:16:56 06/26/14 (0)