Overload in Signal Conversion

Nielsen SH, Lund T. Overload in Signal Conversion. In: AES Conference: 23rd International Conference: Signal Processing in Audio Recording and Reproduction. Audio Engineering Society; 2003. Paper 11. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=12326

@inproceedings{Nielsen2003_12326,
  author = {Nielsen, Soren H. and Lund, Thomas},
  title = {{Overload in Signal Conversion}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 23rd International Conference: Signal Processing in Audio Recording and Reproduction},
  note = {Paper 11},
  year = {2003},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=12326}
}

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TI  - Overload in Signal Conversion
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T2  - AES Conference: 23rd International Conference: Signal Processing in Audio Recording and Reproduction
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PY  - 2003
DA  - 2003/05/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - Digital audio material is often mastered at such hot levels that frequent clipping in the digital domain occurs. While this in itself can cause listener fatigue the sound is often severely additionally distorted in the digital to analog conversion process at the listener end due to lack of headroom in the reproduction. Purely digital processing such as sample rate conversion and perceptual codecs may exhibit the same problem. This paper describes measurements to quantify the problem, and new test performed on commercial recordings to demonstrate the phenomena. Furthermore, methods to avoid the distortion are discussed and demonstrated.
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