Re: Peak Level Monitor/Limiting[Fwd: linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 125]

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Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
    If you think about this for a couple of seconds, you may
    decide to reformulate your opinion.  In a low-level signal,
    you say the "top" (Most Significant) bits will be zero.  In
    a high-level signal, though, the bottom 12-bits are all ones.
</lurk>
Sorry - but this is just untrue. A high-level signal has a larger peak-to-peak voltage/value and hence uses more of the available bits. The least significant bits will not be pinned at '1' as you appear to suggest.

[Apologies if I got the quoting wrong.]

cheers
R


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