mcduman wrote: > actually, everything about cd format was kind of arbitrary in order to > fit Beethoven's 9th in one single portable cd. > (https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-is-a-cd-74-minutes/). it > could have been 14 or 20 bits depending on how much fit in one cd. i am > sure all the engineers from sony and philips from those days are > surprised that whatever they came up with 40 years ago are still the > high watermark of audio technology today. i am, for sure. > > more of every thing in technology from cpu power to screen resolution is > good, whether you need it or not. but when it comes to audio resolution, > less is good. how can this be true?
I can ensure you that 44.1 is enough to mathematically perfectly cover 20kHz on BW which is above humans perception. 16 bits is enough to ensure a SNR and range well inside the 120 dB of human hearing (now I include pain levels). Now, could it be 43 or 48 kHz instead? Yes. That piece is arbitrary but the point is there more does not give you anything. 18 bits? Maybe but computers use bytes and the 16 is enough, so 20 bits will not give you more. Again, everybody is perfectly entitled to have fun building or buying complex and expensive gears. But its about aesthetic and hobbies, what is incorrect is to claim it is better from a signal theorys point if view. LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114009
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