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- From: loj@cae.wisc.edu (Lo Jeffrey)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: dcc
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:11:18 cst
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <1edhrmINNfuc@uwm.edu> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- >
- >Stereo Review, November 1992.
- >
- >Digital Playback:
- >---
- >S/N: A-weighted: 99.3 dB
- > not 93.6 dB
- >
- >Digital Record/Playback:
- >---
- >S/N: A-weighted: 91.5 dB
- > not 87.2 dB
- >
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- These specs look a little fishy. I remember reading that dcc would have
- 18 bit words as opposed to CD's 16 bits. The formula for dynamic range
- in digital systems is:
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- S/N = 20 * log (2 ^ #_of_bits)
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- which yields 96dB for CDs and 108dB for 18 bits. So what's up with the
- above specs. Is my formula or reasoning wrong? Does PASC trash the
- numbers to the point where you can't get the full dynamic range available?
- Is this particular deck using less bits than it should? Is the analog
- circuitry lousy? My money is on the lousy analog. Anyone know any better?
-
- Jeff Lo
- loj@cae.wisc.edu
- jlo@fnugget.intel.com
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