1-Bit Professional Mobile Recorder : diginfo

[ProducersVault]

I love this field recorder I use it for most of my sampling projects.

and what's all this nonsense about 24 bit and 192khz talk .

blah blah blah!!!

[johneymute]

oke we get it to the point,the sounds is recorded at 24bit 192 khz,but is stored as 1bit dsd,a format wich is a losseless compression format.

the dac only has to guess between 1 and 0,s so there,s less chane of a mistake.

however redbook audio is stored in 16bit format as non compressed 16bit pcm at 44,1 khz.

but the dac has to make a guess out of 16,536 combinations,so the chance of a mistake is bigger and it,s also less natural.

[ilovethesechords]

@johneymute Hey Johneymute,

I think you are a little mistaken. DSD is not 24 bit recording - it is actually 1bit.

[C20rules]

When I first saw the title I thought what a hell - 1 bit PCM audio would be square waves - haha.

But then I saw that it's some other audio formats - not the resulotion of PCM audio.

[motorheadmartin]

how do you unplug a optical audio cable?? its stuck in my tv...

[izerra]

what is this thing good for then?

[Tastenzaehler]

what are the mistakes the cpu makes to the audio range???

[wado1942]

Since it's descrete measurements of a continuous waveform, it misses more of the audio than it captures.

BTW, unlike what the video claims, Sony/Phillips did NOT invent this format. It was invented in the 60s and first mass produced by DBX in the early/mid 80s.

[ilovethesechords]

@Tastenzaehler The mistakes in PCM recording happen when the actual level of an audio signal is not a whole number. Like the video said, PCM chooses a value between -8 mil and +8 mil. If the actual value of a sound wave is, lets say, 100000.5, the cpu has to round up to 1000001. This is the error.

[RobotsAreHereNow]

very cool site great info