Waldo Pepper;580913 Wrote: > I'm afraid this is a little more complicated than that. > > The spectrum of noise from 14/15 bits will be far more pleasing on the > ear than the spectrum of noise from 6/7 bits. Regardless to a point of > the total number of bits. > > It was not uncommon in the early days of CDs for random noise to be > added to the lower bits as noise as it's more appealing to the ear than > quantisation distortion which is higher as the number of overall bits is > decreased.
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