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   From: MrT@home   
      
   "Scott Dorsey"  wrote in message   
   news:ic8h2d$vo$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?   
      
   Right. With an analog meter it's full scale point is obvious. But power   
   supply limitations mean there is always a maximum point that cannot be   
   exceeded in any system. It gets a bit harder to define when you consider   
   power supply regulation etc. But as I said, it's the *definition* that   
   counts. not necessarily the real world practical implementations.   
      
   MrT.   
      
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