andY.fRa
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The Topic is my question, what are the best settings with my Aureon which has the Envy24HT.
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Originally Posted by MiChael. I'd choose 32bit fixed-point over 24bit padded to 32bit, cause it's more efficient. |
Originally Posted by Mr.Radar But there are no soundcards that can truely do floating point so it's always converted to integer before it reaches the DAC. |
Originally Posted by MiChael. IIRC 32bit fixed-point is actually 24bit, but last 8bits are ignored by filling it with zeros to get lower cpu usage. |
Originally Posted by Mr.Radar Actually, that's a perfect description of how 24-bit padded to 32-bit works. 32-bit fixed uses all the bits (including the last 8). |