Sparc Station Audio

[Rich Gopstein]

I believe the sample speed is fixed at 8000 samples/second in the
hardware, so you're not going to see that change.  The chip they used can
support u-LAW, a-LAW, and standard binary (probably at 8-bits-per-sample,
though).

There is NO WAY (in general) to convert back from u-law to binary without
losing information.  The binary-to-ulaw conversion process is a
many-to-one mapping.  This is very similar to a floating point roundoff
problem.