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Re: high quality audio output



Title: Re: high quality audio output
At 4:16 PM +0100 11/29/06, Cor Jansen wrote:
Hello all,
 
I'm new to this group. I want to use  my Mac-Mini as high quality audio player.
My question is if I can do this by writing an audio subunit.
 
I want uncompressed audio files (probably wav files) to be played back such that each sample is exactly send
to the digitail output port. Without modification. Each bit exact as it is in the uncompressed file.
 
Is this possible?

Of course. The conversion to and from float is bit accurate in the audio driver. If you want to use the system as is, it will be as high as quality as you can get. There is also a mode called native format mode that you can set the audio path to 16 or 24 bit mode if the audio driver supports that then you supply the integer samples directly. There is no dithering down in the driver so if you do go from a high bit depth to a lower bit depth then there will be truncation errors.




Matt
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