[BC] CD vs LP

Robert Orban rorban at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 22 19:34:19 CDT 2008


At 08:09 AM 9/22/2008, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
>0.707 * 32767 =  23,166 (convert peak level to RMS)
>20 log10 (23,166) = 87 dB
>
>Eighty-seven decibels dynamic range  is much greater than
>typical analog audio circuitry that almost never exceeds
>80 dB over a 20 kHz bandwidth, that it should not be the
>limiting factor in a high-fidelity system.

Dunn says it is 93.3 dB with flat  (white) TPDF dither in the AES 
Convention presentation:

www.nanophon.com/audio/dynrange.pdf




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