<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Mar 2021, at 11:23, Adam Inglis (synthDIY) <<a href="mailto:synthdiy@adambaby.com" class="">synthdiy@adambaby.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Mar 2021, at 7:51 pm, Ben Stuyts <<a href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl" class="">ben@stuyts.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thanks for that link. Interesting architecture: they use the same 12-bit DAC for the a/d controller (IC 9) as for the output d/a (IC 17). With an added SAR controller chip (IC 8).</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This seemed to be “a thing” in the mid eighties - check the SMs for the Roland SDE-1000, and the Roland/Boss RDD, and RSD units, available online. There is something about the sound of these “vintage digital” units that I love…</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Interesting, yes. But it might have been an economic decision. I built and sold an 8-bit audio sampler for the Atari-ST way back then. I remember looking at 12-bit A/D chips and they were eye-watering expensive. So nice crispy 8-bit it was. :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ben</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>