On Friday 07 March 2014 18:33:36 Fons Adriaensen did opine: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:56:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > How then do they handle the noise floor when they are running rms 27db > > below a lot of the rest of the planet? > > I suspect you are mixing up physical voltage levels in dBm and > digital levels here (since 4 + 23 = 27). > > The -23 dB standard loudness reference of ebur128 is relative > to digital peak level, not to 0 dBm. > > Ciao, Ahh, gotcha Fons, so they are saying -23db below the digital clip level. That makes perfect sense in that context, thanks. Now if we could just get the production houses to adhere to that. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> NOTICE: Will pay 100 USD for an HP-4815A defective but complete probe assembly. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
