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Originally Posted by Mike Caffrey According to Dale at IZ, Radar does not have any limiters infront of the converters.
Beyong that, my undestanding is that in general, most converters _do_ have limiters, separate from and soft limiting functions that are switchable. They have to have them just like the have to have the brick wall low pass filters.
So why have two sets? I assume that the differnce is the slope with the "soft limt" have a little bit of a knee as opposed to just being on or off. |
Most converters? I've seen and tested many converters and most do not have soft-limit features. Another poster is absolutely right that when we say "clipping", we're talking about literally clipping the analog stage of the A/D. Is that a good practice? Well, in the loudness race, if you have to make it "loud" (in front of the volume control) analog-domain clipping (especially if it's a hair of clipping on just on a few or one peak transient) can produce fewer artifacts than digital-domain peak limiting or clipping. Excess in any practice can produce bad-sounding results.
BK
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