Post by GreenKiwi on May 7, 2013 19:04:19 GMT -5
I'd love to see an article that talks about analog v. digital volume controls. For instance, what matters and what doesn't matter. Ideally with specifics, showing how and where information is lost or noise is introduced. i.e. you have 21bits of information going in, how much information do you have coming out when you use a digital volume control.
What are good places to use them and what aren't?
It seems like the XDA-1 could be a good case study since people seem to find it's digital volume control lacking. Though being a 24bit DAC it should have been able to pull off an OK digital volume control, but did AD not implement a good digital volume control? (i.e. no interpolation/ditering) How many bits are lost?
What is theoretically a good digital volume implementation?
What are good places to use them and what aren't?
It seems like the XDA-1 could be a good case study since people seem to find it's digital volume control lacking. Though being a 24bit DAC it should have been able to pull off an OK digital volume control, but did AD not implement a good digital volume control? (i.e. no interpolation/ditering) How many bits are lost?
What is theoretically a good digital volume implementation?
