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Originally Posted by kapolavery
is that supposed to be humourous??
haha
i get it tho..
if its not made to go past the limit, it wont go past the limit..
its like
trying to breathe with no air.. sorta thing.. right?
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Yes, it was a lame attempt at humor.
Q hit it on the head though. It is not physically possible to go past those limits.
I wouldn't describe it as breathing without air, more of a "Giving 110% effort isn't possible". If you could give 110%, then what you used to call 100% was actually only 91%.
"This Is Spinal Tap" is a mockumentary about a rock band. During an interview, they said that they were the loudest band in the business, and asked them their secret. Their response was that their amplifiers went up to 11 - it is one higher. The interviewer responded "Why don't you just make 10 louder?". "But it is eleven, it is one higher than ten!"
The [1,-1] scale was arbitrarily chosen to make math easier. We could have easily chosen [2,-2] or [255,0], but all the values would have simply scaled in response.
Changing the "behind the scenes software" would allow you to send signals that are higher or lower than the current bounds, but they wouldn't mean anything.