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   Steve King to Mike Rivers   
   Re: Questions on Levels   
   20 Nov 10 10:35:43   
   
   XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: steveSPAMBLOCK@stevekingSPAMBLOCK.net   
      
   "Mike Rivers"  wrote in message   
   news:ic8f4s$qcp$3@news.eternal-september.org...   
   | On 11/19/2010 11:08 PM, Les Cargill wrote:   
   |   
   | > 0dBFs is the upper limit for an instantaneous voltage   
   | > measure for   
   | > the output of a system of digital to analog conversion.   
   |   
   | I'm still having a difficult time understanding what he   
   | wants to be defined. We're telling him what 0 dBFS means   
   | because that's really the only significant point in a   
   | sampling system. He's asking for some arbitrary conversion   
   | to a sine wave of arbitrary amplitude, and as far as I know,   
   | there's no way to calculate that from anything but an   
   | infinite number of samples. I don't have time for that.   
      
   Mike, he's just yanking your chain.  He gets off on it.  It has nothing to   
   do with anything but that.   
      
   Steve King   
      
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