In Reply to: Wow, what's this? A real technical question. posted by Silver Eared John on November 10, 2005 at 15:20:50:
that a properly-dithered digital system exhibits zero harmonic distortion (due to quantization, as you qualified)?In other words, are there no distortion components that are harmonically related to the signal?
This is interesting, because it makes me wonder about the benefits of moving from, say 16 bits to 24. Properly dithered, won't they exhibit exactly the same distortion at low levels? Presumbaly the major difference becomes the total noise level, since the dithering adds to the overall noise, right?
Peter
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Follow Ups
- Thanks. So does that mean... - Commuteman 15:51:31 11/10/05 (25)
- Re: Thanks. So does that mean... - Dan Banquer 04:27:56 11/11/05 (14)
- No, Dan, no... - Silver Eared John 11:47:01 11/11/05 (11)
- Re: No, Dan, no... - Dan Banquer 13:01:15 11/11/05 (10)
- Re: No, Dan, no... - morricab 13:50:35 11/11/05 (4)
- Re: No, Dan, no... - Dan Banquer 14:19:34 11/11/05 (3)
- Dan, I can't get what he's saying... - Silver Eared John 14:24:36 11/11/05 (2)
- Re: Dan, I can't get what he's saying... - morricab 08:39:58 11/14/05 (0)
- Re: Dan, I can't get what he's saying... - Dan Banquer 14:31:13 11/11/05 (0)
- The posters here are distinguishing between distortion and quantization noise... - Silver Eared John 13:16:15 11/11/05 (4)
- Re: The posters here are distinguishing between distortion and quantization noise... - Dan Banquer 14:26:08 11/11/05 (3)
- Well, I'm not really going to argue... - Silver Eared John 14:34:11 11/11/05 (2)
- You're not going to argue... - mkuller 11:02:31 11/15/05 (1)
- I see y'all still stalking... - Silver Eared John 11:19:25 11/15/05 (0)
- dither is not masking, and todays dacs are more than 16 bit linear - jcox 08:07:27 11/11/05 (1)
- Good thing y'all put quotes around that '24 bits' - Silver Eared John 11:48:35 11/11/05 (0)
- Re: Thanks. So does that mean... - Todd Krieger 22:47:13 11/10/05 (0)
- Well, no, err, sorta ... kinda... - Silver Eared John 19:05:20 11/10/05 (7)
- Re: Well, no, err, sorta ... kinda... - Dan Banquer 03:57:06 11/11/05 (2)
- I've seen, once, about 120dB... - Silver Eared John 11:49:59 11/11/05 (1)
- Re: I've seen, once, about 120dB... - morricab 13:54:09 11/11/05 (0)
- Re: Well, no, err, sorta ... kinda... - Todd Krieger 22:32:19 11/10/05 (3)
- Really, now? - Silver Eared John 23:07:41 11/10/05 (2)
- you are correct - tunenut 16:10:25 11/10/05 (0)