bigfool1956;282195 Wrote: 
> Actually in a 16bit system, there are 32,767 discrete levels, positive
> and negative. The most significant bit is used as the sign (+/-).
In fact there are 65536 discrete steps, because real-world waveforms
are not perfectly symmetrical.  However, in real-world recordings,
generally the bottom few bits are filled with noise.


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