Hi, I am missing something here. What's the benefit of limiting after A/D conversion when it would be much more easy to just do it before the conversion? Just put a peak limiter between the pre-amp and the convertor. Just calibrate it and make sure the signal never exceeds the maximum imput of the A/D. Of course you want as less limiting as possible, so you make sure (almost) no limiting is going on when setting gain of the pre-amp. Besides that you have so much headroom that driving the ADC a little sweeter to prevent clipping, would give a dynamic range of 115db> easily. If you record to put it on a cd why bothering about DNR when it becomes 90db eventually anyway. Besides that most music recorded today not even uses 75% of this full 90db of DNR, because many engineers love to use their Waves L2 and alikes. When your song is played on the radio through an Optimod, with extremely agressive multiband limiting/compression and even clipping, the DNR is reduced to about 40 db! So why do we bother about convertors' dynamic range anyway....?
