Phil Leigh;611510 Wrote: > That thread ignores one extremely significant point, namely there is NO > musical information in the bottom 3 bits of the 24 anyway, because no > ADC currently used for audio purpose can capture anything but noise in > them. Even if they did, they would be so quiet as to be at/beyond the > threshold of human hearing - and would in practice be masked by ambient > noise anyway. > > It is a fallacy/myth that having the volume NOT @ 100 loses musical > information for 24-bit. Obviously one doesn't want to lower the volume > too far, but essentially if you stick no more than 10dB of level > reduction (voume+replaygain) in total you are fine...which means > keeping the vol above 80 if not using RG and (say) 90 with RG.
Thanks again Phil, another informed answer... -- WAD62 Cheers Will ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WAD62's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85691 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
