Phil Leigh;542199 Wrote: > > > That's your homework... now play nicely.
Very nice post Phil. I agree with a lot of it except a couple things. People keep using Brahms and Marching bands simultaneously as an example. Well I for one dont listen to Smashing pumpkins and harp in the same digital sample. Music swings from high to low. So that quiet passage that you say is 7 bits you would not notice 2 bits more missing (4x softer)? I would expect that would go from being barely heard to not heard at all. Couldnt that SAME song with 7bits switch to something much louder (full scale)? So you would never turn it up and down as the song progresses, right. But as others have mentioned I think you can detect a presence or should I say absence when low bits a toyed with even during busy moderate volume material. That is certainly arguable. But the impact to material that swings low can very significant. People keep thinking of all this as instantaneous and what can happen in one moment and what the dynamic range is at one moment. Research how HDCD works. It basically slides the resolution up and down where its needed depending on how loud it is. To effectively get 20bits bit dynamic range over time. But instantaneously it is actually only 15bits. Why would they even bother? Because the requirements change over time. -- mswlogo XP > Cat5 > Transporter/DuetController > SPDIF > Meridian G68 > DSP6000, DSP5500HC, DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF > Meridian DSP5000 XP > Cat5 > DuetReceiver > SPDIF > Meridian G91 > DSP5000 'My Transporter Setup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=350741&postcount=45) 'Hitch Hikers Guide to Meridian' (http://www.meridianunplugged.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725
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