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From: Charles Eidsness <charles.eidsness@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: S24_LE Mode for USB Driver
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:15:12 -0400
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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately for me this means that if I want to avoid the extra discretization 
>> distortion that comes with truncating those bottom 8-bits I'll have to add a 
>> dither function to my DAC.
> 
> We can put msbits hwparams to indicate that only 24bits are used.
> But most apps simply ignore this and checks only the format.  So, I
> don't think this would help in practise.
> 
> 

Thanks Takashi but it's probably not worth it.

Cheers,
Charles