On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 11:10 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's possible, because dB > > is normalized to max power (in watts = intensity). > > You can boost a signal. ... > 0dB for the result of an analog signal, you also can boost a digital signal, just the result needs to be <= 0dBFS for digital. For digital there's dB full-scale square wave and dB full-scale sine wave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBFS