two digitallish questions.

[Ingo Debus]

Dave Krooshof wrote:
> I have a digidesign 882 in my studio. and hell, its noisy.
> I sent it to digidesign to have it repaired, but they claimed -30dB
> was within spec!

What?? 30 dB S/N ratio is within spec??

> And, blammo, there it was onscreen: 12Mhz @ -30dB  :-(

How much is this in volts? Is a CE sign on the device?

> The noise is just my mixingdesk in protest to this beep!
> What's the easiest way to cancel this out from balanced outputs?

Balanced outputs, but 30 dB S/N? Unbelievalbe.

> 2.) Digital to digital copying is clipping.
[...]
> The odd thing is, the top40 cd's sound OK in my cd player,
> but when copied into my Mac, digitally, they CLIP!!!
> Not only do they hit 0dB, the waves actually look clipped when I zoom in.

This seems to be common practice nowadays :-((
I noticed that on the Santana Supernatural CD. Imagine that... a
bestseller, and just clipped (heavily sometimes). The clipping is not
audible to me (and appearantly not to others either), it happens mostly
at drum hits. But it's clear to be seen on screen.
And people are worrying about higher sampler rates/higher resolution...

> Also, it sounds clippeder then from the cdplayes analogue out*!

Perhaps you have better speakers at your computer than at your Hifi? ;-)

Ingo