[sdiy] uLaw DACs in the modern era?

[rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk]

Perhaps something like Audacity can do it and run on a Mac, I don't 
know.  mu-law and a-law compression are donkey's years old so I think 
most audio editors have an option hidden away somewhere to support 
import/export of them.

-Richie,


On 2018-05-23 15:05, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> Thanks Richie, but unfortunately I don’t have a machine that will run
> it. Got Macs and Androids, but no Win boxes currently. My old
> “electronics PC” fell down the stairs in a hideous accident some time
> ago…
> 
> Pity, because I was looking at SpinASM recently too, and that’s Win
> only as well.
> 
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>> On 23 May 2018, at 13:52, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>> Tom, do you know that you can easily assess the effect of mu-law or 
>> a-law companding with only a WAV editor like Goldwave?
>> 
>> Just load up a sound, then save a copy to disc as a WAV file with the 
>> attributes set to either mu-law or a-law.  Then open this new file and 
>> you will see (and hear) the effects of the non-linear quantisation.  
>> You can do an A/B comparison.  To my ears the quantisation just makes 
>> things sound slightly fuzzy and indistinct.
>> 
>> -Richie,
> 
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