Dear Ian,
Thanks for the fast reply !
My limited knowledge of digital electronics allows me to venture that these 20 bits would be better than even correctly dithered 16 bits, because I'll still gain 4 more bits that were previously not accessible with my old 16 bit hardware. In other words, I hope to get 19 accurate bits, and a 20th bit that will be a result of truncation and not dithering. As I see it, this is an improvement over a properly dithered 16th bit. But let's wait and see what the experts will say :)
UB
--- Ian Scott ian@polpo.org wrote:
Unfortunately, if it's a 20-bit DAC and you feed it 24 bits of data, the 4 least signifigant bits just get chopped off which is not desirable. I would venture to guess that 16 bits with MAD's dithering would be better than 24 bits with the last 4 being ignored.
Ian
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