minimum 5.5mm^2 is required, so we are talking about 3575 euros here. Besides, it is very rare that you can get a production grade chip on the first try, bug happens all the time, you might need 2 or 3 or even more tries to get a working product.
the devil is in the DAC and ADC. You just can't turn 16bit/24bit data directly to/from analog without much loss. The 1/65536 accuracy voltage divider simply don't exist.
So, you have to up-sample the songs to high rates with less bits, like 1bit to 6bits, then do the conversion, and get the best SNR you can.
In this sense, there's simply a lot of advantage of using 24/196 since the above conversion can result in less loss and higher SNR
The low-passing with a brick wall filter on 44.1KHz audio can be a bad thing sometimes, for example, pre-echo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-echo
You won't hear the pre-echo on a 2.8MHz DSD audio.
In the real world, it is almost impossible to make a voltage divider with 24bit resolution. So all the DAC makers have to convert 24bit audio into lower bits(6bits to 1bits), this step requires oversampling the original audio. It is a lot easier to oversample a 192KHz/24bit audio than a 44.1K/24bit audio, and the ringing is much less after oversampling the 192KHz/24bit audio.
There's a big difference in impulse response with different sample rates, any one can see it on a oscilloscope, I bet some one can hear the difference.
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This kind of work is OK for some simple block level circuit designs. In the real world designs, as circuits grow complicated, and parasitics add in, the SPICE convergence issue kicks in and automation becomes difficult.
From a EE's point of view, what the OP said is that there's too much noise involved in multi-armed bandit algorithm. If that's the case, a low pass loop filter is needed. It's kind of like locking a PLL to a reference clock right?
high dynamic range is not about the lowest volume you can hear, it's about the voltage resolution between this sampling point and the next. Base on your assumption, we can all see black whether we use 16bit RGB color or 24bit RGB color, what's the point of using 24bit RGB?
The hearing of ears is a time-domain thing, not a frequency domain thing. It's the frequency response of all the frequency components added together. people might not be able to respond well to a single high frequency tone, but might respond well to a combination of tones.
why do you think "This difference gets lost in the THD already at the DAC "? Do you have numbers to back it up? What's the noise floor of DAC? What's the noise floor of an output stage? Do you have the number?
