docbob wrote: > Without discussing audibility at all, one can say about 24/96: it is a > standard format, >
There are now so many so-called standard formats that being a standard format conveys very little benefit. However, 44/16 has been THE standard format for over 30 years and and 48/16 (used in video) can duke it out to determine which is the most widely used. In that contest, 24 bit and high sample rate formats are barley a blip. > > audio software deals with it, and as drmatt points out humans can > sometimes make mistakes. > Transmitting 70 to 85 percent useless data is hardly justified by the few mistakes that it would address. Setting levels is only one of the many possible and even common kinds of errors that are commonly made during audio production. > > If your amp is exactly 10ft from your speakers, do you cut the speaker > wire to exactly 10ft? Or do you add a little? > Straw man, off topic, and ludicrous argument. Ignores the fact that 16 bit audio was chosen at a time when it was known that 13-14 bits would suffice. 16 bits were chosen because they coincided with the prevailing computer technology of the day, not because it was some kind of minimum based on the requirements of audio recording or human hearing. Both the sample rate and sample size of CD format audio are overkill. Your speaker wire is already 15 eet long. > > Some humans make mistakes. "24 bit triples it, but 48 bit only doubles > it" is some wacky math. > It makes perfect sense if you realize that the word *it *refers to the previous format. > > I think you meant 48 only -further- doubles it. > Glad you finally figured that out. > > That's okay though, we're all human, we all make mistakes. > After making a few mistakes of your own, you finally get to mine: Uh, 44100Hz * 2 bytes * 32 channels * 3600 sec / 10^9 = 10.16 GB per hour. You are off by a factor of 8. Did we forget the difference between bits and bytes? That's okay though, we're all human, we all make mistakes. You seem to be outdistancing me quickly in terms of rapidly making many mistakes. So 10ish GB will easily fit on a $10 16GB USB3 stick for easy transport or take up about 50cents worth of an external 2TB HD. Cheaper for internal. For studios with 24-32 channel consoles, are these prices excessive? I guess you didn't understand the two times that I said that space was not the issue, the problem was processing time. Just another mistake... You are now even further ahead of me! ;-) I guess making this mistake suggests that you've never ever tried to copy like 10 GB of data between two hard drives or a hard drive and a flash drive, or a SSD and a flash drive or hard drive. \ I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, and calling it an ignorant mistake, nothing malevolent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105717 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
