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Digital Audio Convertors DAC

I’m publishing this way back in September, I am having a guess at the date we will be covering this topic.

Description of features of sound cards, including:

  • role of DAC

The DAC converts a stream of digital bits into an analogue signal. This signal is then changed into a sound wave by an amplifier and speakers.

The human ear is a complicated thing and as I said in class your hearing is diminishing with age. So is there a difference between 16 and 24 bit? Well probability not for me but your young ears might find the difference quite noticeable.