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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.150203.9891@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
- References: <1992Sep11.201954.256@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> <1992Sep12.004219.1688@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <65730@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep14.105249.26726@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Sep14.133832.21463@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep15.005942.9017@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <ERICJ.92Sep14204334@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:02:03 GMT
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- In <ERICJ.92Sep14204334@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep15.005942.9017@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- > The home/small business people buying IBMs and SoundBlasters are stuck
- > with limited 8bit sound.
-
- >So are we.
-
- Not really. What about volume control ? The Amiga has 8bit resolution for
- the sample but about 14bit dynamic. A CD has 16bit resolution which is
- mostly used to achieve 16bit dynamic (actually the SNR of a CD is usually
- better by about 15db).
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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