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From: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,rec.audio,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Mac II D/A resolution
Message-ID: <1966@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 00:59:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 00:59:31 1987
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In article <585@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
>I've heard conflicting reports about the MacII's D/A resolution.
>Would anyone at Apple care to set me straight?
>
>How can you say the Mac II  delivers CD audio quality with only 
>8-bits of resolution?  Exponential D/A converters A'la Amiga?
>I  hope not...
>

  It doesn't.  It samples at 44.1KHz, but the sampling word is 8bit instead
of 14 or 16.  The S/N is around 40 to 50db.  Noisy...
  For the poop on the II, read this months BYTE.