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- From: whit@carson.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: "1-bit DAC"
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:52:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <C0F8Hp.84n@ve7frg.ampr.org> doug@ve7frg.ampr.org (Doug Collinge - VE7GNU) writes:
- >If my CD with a "1 bit DAC" and the aid of "8 times oversampling"
- >can produce audio as good as an older CD with no "oversampling" and
- >a 16-bit DAC then can my circuit with an 8-bit DAC be replaced
- >with a 1-bit DAC and 4-times oversampling?
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- Welcome to marketing buzzword confusion hour.
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- A "1-bit DAC" is a sigma-delta D/A converter, and if
- you want to use it for CD output, it has to be 16-bit capable.
- Because, the input to it will be a 16-bit number, more than likely.
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- There are no CD players that have 'no oversampling';
- perhaps an early multi-kilobuck unit or two with no oversampling
- were produced, but I've never seen one. The first inexpensive
- CD players ($500 and under) were all 2x oversampling, and required
- modest hand-trimmed filters. 4x oversampling units don't require
- any hand-trimming of the filters (perhaps simply selected components),
- but the NON-oversampling units would have required immense, elaborate,
- twenty-adjustment-knob filters (not feasible in mass production,
- and NEVER inexpensive).
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- An eight-bit DAC is rarely linear to 16-bit precision,
- and will not successfully reproduce CD sound. The 'one-bit'
- approaches ARE intended to be linear to that full 16-bit
- precision.
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- John Whitmore
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