two digitallish questions.

[Dave Krooshof]

I re:re:ed on this before, probably from another address, as I didn't saw
it comming back...

>Clipping is very common on CDs.
True. I know, I've been working in advertizing/jingles (never again).
The quest for the loudest output is heavy there. A cold war.

But Britney and Ricky cause audible *extra* clipping when being
recorded through spdif!!!
Where the heck is *that* comming from?
Ricky Martin _dies_ when put to MD!

>Elektor did a project to detect clipping on SPDIF digital signals a couple
>of years ago - fairly simple - just a CS8412 and a bit of logic to detect
>0000 or FFFF.
Digidesign flashes the red led when three samples or more are at min or max.

BTW, I'm not _afraid_ of digital clipping, I do it all the time.
I like it on drums. Voices too sometimes. So if Britney clips over
my limits, I guess it's beyond the taste of the any teenager.
Leaving me with the thought some anti copiing trick might be
involved here...

>Exactly how are you copying the audio? (Toast?). Are you ripping the CD's,
>or dubbing the audio in real time?
Both. ripping is better then spdif. I use cd-extractor (comes with toast 4)
as it can rip to split sd2 files. I need those in Protools.


[12Mhz on DAC balanced putput]
Two suggestion have been made:
- ferrite on the wires
- cap over the phase and anti fase wires.
Which of those would you guys suggest?
The tone is the clock of the ADC which 'resamples'(sort of) at that rate.


Thanks a lot y'all!


Dave


just reminded of Pierce: "War is heck"



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