Practical Considerations on Overload-Distortion of Analog-to-Digital Converters

Gaspar I. Practical Considerations on Overload-Distortion of Analog-to-Digital Converters. In: AES Convention 92. Audio Engineering Society; 1992.pp. 3282:1-20. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=6851

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  author = {Gaspar, Imre},
  title = {{Practical Considerations on Overload-Distortion of Analog-to-Digital Converters}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 92},
  pages = {3282:1-20},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=6851},
  year = {1992},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society}
}

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AB  - Excessive program levels can cause strange distortions during digitization. While the clipping of an analog audio signal produces a well-known harmonic distortion, the overload of the ADC results in the appearance of non-harmonic components. The human sense of aliasing effect is usually more dubious than the sense of harmonic distortion, so spurious sounds are more likely to get into a digital recording because of an overload, than in an anlog one. It is especially dangerous, when pre-emphasis is applied prior to the A/D conversion. Theoretical and experimental investigations of these phenomena show that this problem can be reduced significantly by means of a very simple circuit.
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