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In Reply to: Re: ASIO & bit rates posted by aljordan on October 26, 2006 at 05:33:34:
" ... The more words that are recorded per second, the more information that can be captured. ... higher sampling rate should sound smoother up to a point. Also, using longer word lengths, 24 bits instead of 16 bits, allow higher dynamic range and allow noise to be pushed into an inaudible frequency range. ..."Yes it does: 24 bits has much more audio information than 16 bits and the dynamic range can be greater than 140 db in the conversion to and from analog to digital and back.
But this in not "inaudible" ... and almost anyone can hear the difference.
Play a CD of 16 bit music on a DVD-A capable player, then play the DVD-A version of the same album ... the differences are dramatic. (If you can't hear the differences it can only be because some component of your system is squeezing or compressing the 24 bit words back to 16 bits.)
Best example I know of: there ar no quality recording studios using 16 bit or 18 bit or 20 bit analog to digital components to make master recordings. It is all multichannel 24 bit / 96k or 24 bit / 192k or better. No professional musician I know of will allow it for their masters and no professional recording engineer will even suggest it.
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