ABSTRACT
The advance of digital audio has greatly improved the fidelity of audio storage media, and
generally made wonderful things possible, but sound waves remain stubbornly analog, and so
conversion from analog to digital and vice versa is very necessary. Today’s analog-to-digital
converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) have excellent performance, with
24-bit accuracy at a 192 kHz sampling rate commonplace, but to achieve this potential
performance in an application there are a good number of factors that need to be appreciated.
Some of them, such as the need for effective HF decoupling, are relatively straightforward
