[sdiy] Consider this DAC

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:

> Here is the pertinent excerpt in reference to best practice in Piano Tuning:
>
> Accuracy within one cent would score a perfect 100 on the Tuning Exam 
> and would satisfy any contract obligation.
>
> It looks like 1 cent is the holly grail after all.

It might be useful to have even higher resolution for sounds where the 
beating is very slow. Pianos have 2 or 3 strings per key and that beating 
is likely to influence the ability to detect finer tuning.

An example would be having two sawtooths tuned, say, 10 cents apart. A 1 
cent error in the detuning is unlikely to be detectable while it would be 
quite audible if the detuning was only 2 cents.

Antti

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