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   Scott Dorsey to yates@ieee.org   
   Re: dBFS   
   19 Nov 10 21:07:22   
   
   XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article , Randy Yates   wrote:   
   >   
   >I'm trying hard to see an answer to my question in what you wrote and   
   >failing.   
   >   
   >Let me respond to you with this question: If you had a meter that   
   >-24 dBFS with a Fs/4 sine wave, what would the peak value of the   
   >sine wave be?   
      
   I don't know what a Fs/4 sine wave is.   
      
   If the meter is reading -24 dBFS, and it's a 16 bit system, that   
   means the peak value of the waveform is 0x1FFF, right?  Because   
   it's one-eighth of the full scale value.   
   --scott   
      
      
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