jarome wrote: > 16 bits gets congested. I still haven't come across a commercial recording that uses more than 16 bits of dynamic range.
> In principle, by doing some slights of hand (interpolating -randomly- > between bit levels) CDs claim to be able to get 19 bits, which might be > sufficient. Tell us more - how does that work? Sounds like you are talking about dither - that applies to any digital signal, not just CD. The only slights of hand that a CD does is error correction when you get read errors. > Remember that with 16 bits, there are only 65,000 levels (half > negative), so there is a inherent 1/325 % distortion due to imperfect > representation of the sample height. Not distortion, but quantization noise. And the "1/325 %" (0.00003) is also misleading, because you also have to look at the frequency distribution of the error. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106935 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
