Re: Hello and a Sony PCM D100 question

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Hi Raimund,=0D
                     Your understanding of the limiter is the same as mine,=
 the SN100 mode however is not related to the limiter - looks like Sony sum=
 those two ADCS to bring the increased SNR.=0D
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See Page 86. 96 dB (SN100 off) vs 100 dB (SN100 on) for the Line input. The=
 Mic input with 150 R termination at max gain & PCM 96 Khz / 24 bit with av=
eraging for 10 seconds gave a 1 dB improvement using the feature. =0D
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 My understanding of what Sony did (speculation) =0D
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 Limiting: Two ADCs are used per channel, if the limiter is active one of t=
hose is recording 12dB lower, when the main ADC clips the recorder switches=
 to the lower level ADC.=0D
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 SNR: Two ADCs are used per channel and in SN100 are combined to improve th=
e SNR (as the name suggests) which has nothing to do with limiting=0D
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 "something like that"=0D
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 -Mike.=0D
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