XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Mr.T  wrote:   
   >"Scott Dorsey"  wrote in message   
   >news:ic7ar2$pjg$1@panix2.panix.com...   
   >> dBFS has not got a damn thing to do with sine waves or reference levels   
   >> or anything in the analogue world.   
   >   
   >Well actually *dB Full Scale*, by simple definition can be the *full scale   
   >dB value* of any digital OR analog system. It's use now is more commonly   
   >connected to digital systems of course.   
      
   What is the full scale of an analogue system?  Is it where it starts to   
   get nonlinear, where it gets really nonlinear, or where it stops and won't   
   go any more at all?   
      
   dBFS isn't really useful on a system that does not clip abruptly and   
   simultaneously on all stages.   
   --scott   
      
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