Quoth rob at 2008-12-23 19:32... > If you normalise (as requested) the samples your 16-bit samples will be > 'stretched' (in magnitude) to cover the 24-bits spanning 0 to 1 in > floating-point - hence those bits will be non-zero. Thanks, understood. And you've also answered what would have been my next question - "what is normalise?" Never came across that in my analogue days. -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user