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The Four Truths of Digital

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Truth One: DSD is a 4-8 bit recording system, not 1. This means it gets decimated and oversampled - two things the scheme was trying to avoid in the first place.

Truth Two: 16-bit "audiophile" CDs contain 20-bit level resolution and have since 1993.

Truth Three: The limit of human hearing is 20-bit level resloution.

Truth Four: Digital is hundreds of times lower in distortion vs. analog but its distortions are spread-out spectrally and are hard to pin down. They're removing these, at last, in the latest playback gear.

JPH

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