Excellent Tom. Couldn't have written it better myself (probably worse 
with my English). My Converters have a factory setting of +4dBm=-15dBfs. 
And even that with classical is sometimes not enough for me. With 24 
bits I would even go to the old forgotten -18dBfs (early Sony DAT). It 
was abandoned almost overnight in the 16 bit world.
Is anyone here using the bitstream system (DSD)? Are there other 
considerations when it is employed (this is OT I know).
Cheers
Shai
בתאריך 19/10/12 4:10 PM, ציטוט Tom Fine:
>
> So one question that comes up in all of this is "what is 0VU on my 
> console as far as dBfs in my DAW"? Assuming 0VU = +4dBm, and you have 
> your mixing console set accordingly, I think you're safe with 0 = 
> -12dBfs, but I think one more conservative standard out there calls 
> for 0 = -14dBfs.

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