In Reply to: You are right Christine, I meant a 24 bit mantissa... posted by Jim Pearce on August 15, 2005 at 08:13:31:
it took a lot of effort for Meridian to program them in 48-bits, since it involves maintaining intermediate results in two parallel sets of registers.I doubt that any other manufacturer have done similar - maybe in pockets of the code, but not all the way through.
Which really means it's highly unlikely you are hearing anywhere close to 24-bit resolution on these devices. Those are "marketing" bits, but processing quantization errors reduce the accuracy to not much more than 16 bits at best.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- No. they are 24-bit fixed point, but have a 48-bit accumulator - Christine Tham 14:32:55 08/15/05 (0)