I'm not totally up to date on the specs of recent Macs but I doubt that any of them have 24 bit ADCs or DACs. Even if they did, the noise floor of consumer grade ADCs and DACs in a noisy environment like a computer would be such that you'd never actually achieve much more than than 16 bits of dynamic range anyway.
Paul On 27 Apr 2009, at 19:21, Jason Davies wrote: > > Paul Russell wrote on 27/4/09 at 19:05 > >> You probably won't be able to hear the difference between 16 bit >> audio >> and 24 bit audio, even if your Mac had 24 bit output capability. The >> main reason for using 24 bit audio is so that sound can be recorded >> and >> stored at a higher resolution than needed so that nothing is lost in >> the mixing process. > > well, I can tell the difference between 320 MP3 and 320 AAC and > lossless...! > > do I take it that it doesn't have 24bit from your 'even if'? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
