Digital audio uses a well-defined work length and sampling rates, and yet the performance achieved in the A/D converters used is very variable. This paper looks at the main performance parameters of audio A/Ds and what affects them - from the viewpoint of how to specify units and subsequently test them.

Author: Story, Mike
Affiliation: Data Conversion Systems, Cambridge, U.K.
AES Conference: UK 9th Conference: Managing the Bit Budget (MBB) (May 1994)
Paper Number: MBB-04
Publication Date: May 1, 1994 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Managing the Bit Budget
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