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Re: You don't need more than 24 bits.

With greater resolution comes more problems. The sound floor of amplifiers can now be reached. Who wants to listen to your amplifier imperfections with even greater clarity. As an audiologist I can tell you that if your older than 6, have lived in the real world you no longer have the ears to tell the difference between 20 or 24 bit word length. I'm sure someone will market greater word length and higher sampling frequency but it becomes a numbers game and not one to benefit the listener. Back in the 1970's when the receiver wars were going on total harmonic distortion greater than .1% was considered bad. Your ears were hard pressed to hear .5% THD from 20-20KHZ but if it was greater than .1% you had a bad product.


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  • Re: You don't need more than 24 bits. - digepix 14:16:33 03/01/07 (0)


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