Topic: 24/48 to 16/44 conversion introducing clipping...

[breakonthru]

Sample Rate Conversion (SRC) can introduce peak levels beyond 0 dbfs due to interpolation. So the order of operations is the key.

Gordon

there was a huge debate about this
“Intersample overs” back in the day when benchmark introduced the DAC 2. While I generally find the technical discussions of John Siau to be impenetrable, the “community” as it were just poo-poo’d the idea as if it wasn’t a thing, or at least not as significant as benchmark made it out to be

https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/intersample-overs-in-cd-recordings

[tim in jersey]

I use Sound Forge and normalize to 98.14% (not sure what the dB value of that is), and then dither with iZotope's mbit process.  I never noticed any clipping after dithering.

Looks like 98.14% is about -0.16dB.

I was just coming to post that!

I'm curious as to the math behind y'all coming up with that number. Care to enlighten me?

[nulldogmas]

I'm curious as to the math behind y'all coming up with that number. Care to enlighten me?