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RE: Noise levels and dynamic range

When you say that until recently, BIS reocrdings were not hi-rez, are you yet another listener who's hung up with sampling frequency? I read over at SA-CD.net how horrified some listeners were when it was revealed that some BIS SACD's were recorded at 24/44.1. But then when it came time to identify which recordings were recorded at that resolution and which were recorded at 24/96 (in Vanska's set of Beethoven symphonies), I believe only one listener got it right! This was clearly a case of people listening with their eyes.

You do know too that when you double the sampling frequency, you double the resolution, but when you go from 16 bits per sample to 24 bits per sample, you increase the resolution by 256 times, since each bit added doubles the resolution.



Edits: 06/10/12

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