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- From: tweeks@millenium.texas.net (Thomas Weeks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 06:32:39 GMT
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- References: <wfblanDL5rJB.IK8@netcom.com> <wfblanDLKurL.6rz@netcom.com> <4e05du$4dv@serpens.rhein.de> <judas.0ho5@tomtec.abg.sub.org> <4ekcsm$13p@news.jhu.edu>
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- Zsolt Szabo (robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <judas.0ho5@tomtec.abg.sub.org>,
- : Th.Huber <judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org> wrote:
-
- : Sorry, but this is complete nonsense. Ever heard of the term signal to
- : noise ratio? An ideal 16 bit signal has an SNR of 96dB; by comparison,
- : an 8 bit sample has 48dB SNR. This has little to do with the
-
- No... what YOU are referring to is called the DYNAMIC RANGE...
- You get approximatly 6dB of dynamic range per added bit of resolution.
-
- Signal to noise ratio is simply a power ratio of the signal to the
- background noise... This has to do with the input signal its self... now
- if you are suggesting that the error gained by quantization error has
- something to do with SNR, I suppose that you could argue that.. but
- quantization error is smoothed out via the LFP (low pass filter) and you
- are simply left with an actual type of slight amplitude/phase error... I
- guess you could call this 'noise'... but its frequency and power are
- directly related to the inputs frequency and to the quantization error.
- I guess it comes down to a debate about definitions...
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