adamdea;629648 Wrote: 
> ....and surely it's not expressed as a ratio of the number of bits which
> are dodgy to total bits (1 bit =.5, 2 bits equal .25), but as a ratio of
> the quantisation error to the value expressed by the bits (2 bits =1/6
> max). Acutally the average (ie RMS) error is less than 0.5 bits I
> reckon

yes that's what I meant by the error/noise being "in the lowest bit"
The lowest bit is not always wrong!


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