What is the reason why companding is employed in PCM systems?
A. To overcome impulse noise in PCM receivers
B. To allow amplitude limiting in the receivers
C. To solve quantizing noise problem
D. To protect small signals in PCM from quantizing distortion

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D. To protect small signals in PCM from quantizing distortion

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