[PlanetCCRMA] Pentium-4 and denormal numbers on planetccrma

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:43:22 -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 28 Jan 2005 16:01:05 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> > > Maybe this is the way to "cure" (as in "don't think too much")
> > > freqtweak, it also has denormal issues in its current release.
> > > 
> > A bit off-topic but while you have bitscope out and working try
> > hooking up alsaplayer and playing either some mp3 or wave files. Do
> > you see any problems?
> 
> Interesting, looks like a bug in alsaplayer?. For those not looking at
> my screen, I see the pattern singled out as "Mistake #1" in the bitscope
> docs, which means the scaling from integers to floats prior to sending
> stuff to jack is off by 1 (if I understand the meaning correctly). Nice
> catch. 
> 
> Mark, did you _hear_ this first and then looked at bitscope? :-)

It did used to be possible to hear it, when JACK's non-dithered 16bit
output was buggy. Now it clips, which is pretty hard to hear.

- Steve