On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:36:45AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > to summarize, there are two physical constraints, and they are > common to analog and digital signals: bandwidth and dynamic range > (or, more precisely, signal-to-noise ratio). in both respects, > digital systems out-do analog ones easily, by orders of magnitude, I tend to think of SNR and dynamic range as two separate things. I look at "dynamic range" as the amount of "headroom" available for an instruments variation in loudness/softness. Whereas keeping the noise level low enough is another kettle of fish. Am I misunderstanding something? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
