Wombat;629329 Wrote: > Again you calculate some things up and down that are simply limited by > the way linear PCM works. When you have noise in bit 17-24 these 24bit > gain you nothing. Bit 16 will be as distorted or accurate as it will be > without bit 17-24 you even can truncate here. For music that is clean > below bit 16 dithering may help. > Still there are more factors why you can´t hear a very silent tone in > normal music or again if it is that low you´d have to crank it up > insane so that normal listening with the louder parts of the music > isn´t possible. > > I think we are going in circles here and i better stop because my math > isn´t good enough to explain it to you. Your way of argueing i remember > was pretty common in the beginning of digital audio but has no meaning > for real world listening. > > You may come to Hydrogenaudio.org and ask the same stuff. I bet someone > can help you with the math you try here. I agree - I started to write a long reply to Terry's post and gave up.
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