[music-dsp] Re: 24 bit 96 KHz

[Jon Watte]

>basically the 1 bit thingy appears just at the end of the D/A string, but
>all interim results of processing the samples must be stored at full
>accuracy, and 16 bits is probably not enough.

SONY are selling professional "direct bitstream" recorders. They may 
even be working on processors/mixers for that format. "direct bitstream" 
(at least I think that's the name) is an ultra-high-frequency sampling format 
with single-bit data. The signal can be reconstructed with a simple capacitor 
and resistor filter, or something more fancy if you're into that...

I very briefly looked at what I could find out about the format a year or so 
ago, and it's not immediately obvious how you would do even such simple 
processing as mixing on it -- anyone have any clues?

Cheers,

				/ h+

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