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Old 11th November 2008   #4
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Originally Posted by chris319 View Post
That would mean +4 dBu = -20 dBFS -- in other words, you have 20 dB of headroom before clipping.
Yep, and if outputting 0dBFS from the oscillator it would clip by 4dB:
0dBFS out of the DAC = +24dBu

0dBFS on ADC = +20dBu.

So 0dBFS from the DAC is equal to +4dBFS on the ADC.
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