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In Reply to: Re: yes it does posted by Frank. on April 28, 2004 at 00:27:33:
Frank, have you done any DSD recording?it is very easy to deny or dismiss something you have no first hand experience of.
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What has my experience got to do with this?It doesn't change the fact that overloading a dsd dac is very different from pushing a tape into saturation.
The 'official' advice is to stay below -6dB with dsd to allow headroom for processing and prefent artifacts.With pcm you can use all the available headroom for recording without bothering about processing if you move into a DAW with more headroom if it's processing in at least 32 bits.
PS.
I gather from previous postings that you have a lot of experience with overloading converters. :)
*** The 'official' advice is to stay below -6dB with dsd to allow headroom for processing and prefent artifacts. ***you got it backwards. See Ted Smith's post and graemme's reply.
- http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=hirez&n=174106&highlight=DSD+saturation+Ted+Smith&r=&session= (Open in New Window)
Staying -6dB below clipping and calling it 'build in headroom' is turning things around.DSD clips gradually because it runs out of bits to represent the signals wave shape. To suggest that this behaviour mimics tape saturation look more like an attempt to keep the dsd myth alive.
With any digital medium the amount of headroom is at the discretion of the record engineer.
regardless of whether you are calling the glass half empty or half full, your original statement is still factually incorrect, and that is all i am saying.*** The 'official' advice is to stay below -6dB with dsd ***
it's not 'official', it's not 'advice', and it's not '-6dB'
you love jumping in and saying statements that are incorrect. it really lowers your credibility.
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