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Originally Posted by Craig Sawyers
Heroic overload margin (29dBu), which corresponds to power supply rails of +/-30-odd volts. The only slight disappointment is the so-so output noise of -95dBu. Since it will almost certainly be part of a digital processing chain, that corresponds merely to Red Book 16-bit LSB. The output noise ought to be a whole lot less than that, certainly with a pro-audio product like that.
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I think you may be misunderstanding how professional audio levels work Craig. That piece of kit will probably be designed to work at a nominal operating level of +4dBu and peak levels would be somewhat higher. If it was feeding a digital system then the analogue level for 0dBFS would probably be somewhere between +18 and +24dBu. So you end up with a dynamic range into the ADC of something like 119dB which is better than all but the highest performance convertors.