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Originally Posted by percival007
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Originally Posted by barrymagrec
Before digital audio was standardised to 16 bit the BBC did a lot of investigation and concluded that 14 bit was entirely adequate for their purposes.
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That is very interesting indeed.
Do you have any information about the DAC's they were using?
James |
No but given it was so long ago (late sixties?) they were probably discrete.
Even in 1985 the company I was working at were still using discrete 4 bit DACs for RGB graphics.
The number of components required for a simple DAC is more or less proportional to the number of bits, but of course the required resistor accuracy increases as the resolution increases.