[sdiy] uLaw DACs in the modern era?

[Roman]

Wasn't original reason for this in telecom industry?  AFAIK u/a-laws were invented to provide better dynamic range of phone conversation, because all you have in there is 8 bits. It was better idea than stealing 2 slots for one channel, reducing throughput by half.   Roman   Dnia 19 maja 2018 23:47 Brian <  rsdio at audiobanshee.com > napisał(a):   The original reasons for 8-bit and u-Law were the memory limitations and expense of precision DAC chips at the time. These days, memory and precision are not a challenge. So, if you still want the grunginess of variable quantization, just bake it into the samples.
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   Wasn't original reason for this in telecom industry?
   AFAIK u/a-laws were invented to provide better dynamic range of phone
   conversation, because all you have in there is 8 bits. It was better
   idea than stealing 2 slots for one channel, reducing throughput by
   half.
   Roman

   Dnia 19 maja 2018 23:47 Brian <[1]rsdio at audiobanshee.com> napisaÅ(a):

   The original reasons for 8-bit and u-Law were the memory limitations
   and expense of precision DAC chips at the time. These days, memory and
   precision are not a challenge. So, if you still want the grunginess of
   variable quantization, just bake it into the samples.

References

   1. mailto:rsdio at audiobanshee.com