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Re: Sennheiser Digital Wireless

Subject: Re: Sennheiser Digital Wireless
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:22:37 -0400
From: "Rich Peet" <>

> I am into an area now that I am a bit fuzzy with but, I thought that 
> the 1 bit systems were for the data stream only. In order to get the 
> number of volume steps the a/d converter still has to function at a 
> full word length of 16 bit or whatever depth it is to convey the 
> volume level?

There are 1bit oversampling A/D's as well as the more well known D/A's. 
I won't attempt to describe how they do it as I'd probably get it wrong. 
But check in Pohlmann's "Principles of Digital Audio". He describes how 
it's done. And why it's done.

Walt




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