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Originally Posted by Bang  This makes no sense at all. Once you have clipped via a high quality A/D and put a ceiling on it, the % of THD doesn't matter, its just playing back a digital file. A shitty playback system will make something squashed with an L2 sound just as bad as something overloaded to an A/D. |
If you have a digital signal with consecutive full scale samples, you will get intersample peaks greater than 0dBfs at the output of the alias filtering in the D/A converter. A cheap D/A may not have the analog headroom to handle the extra level, and will distort on playback.