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- From: njh@ukc.ac.uk (Niki Hemmings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 11:54:57 GMT
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- In article <4dm6c7$o74@news.jhu.edu>,
- Zsolt Szabo <robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu> wrote:
- >Has it ever occurred to you that with 16 bit audio the number of DACs
- >could be reduced to two and STILL you could have more than 4 channels of
- >output at higher quality than the original 8 bit DACs?
-
- But if you only want two channels then what's the point? The Amiga is
- already perfectly capable of playing two channels of 14 bit sound. It's
- a small overhead on the mixing process, but in contrast to upgrading the
- hardware, it costs you precisely $0.00.
-
- Nik.
-