Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

From: Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat May 29 2010 - 00:33:35 EEST

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:07 +0200, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:

> > So 20 "useful" bits - approx.
>
> Where do you get this ? What the plot shows is that the
> S/N ratio is around 95 dB, that's all. Even if the ADC
> has 20 effective bits, they are useless as the analog
> noise dominates.

I get this from the difference between a piano-like signal fading out
into a squarewave vs fading out way below the noisefloor. The former is
unbearable.

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