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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 19:47:00 GMT
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solderdude
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Post by solderdude on Aug 10, 2013 22:01:39 GMT
They do have some points. 24/192 is overkill as an 'end format' but valuable in a studio where one cannot make recordings at near 0dB. One has to have enough headroom to throw away bits without coming near a noise floor or running out of resolution and must be able to play with 'speed' e.t.c. During mixing and editing 32 bits or 64 bits are preferred and later truncated or 'dithered' to 24 again for calculative reasons. Once down-mixed and ready for 'pressing' 16 bits is more than enough. On the other hand IF one has a final mix made in 24/192 I don't see why that couldn't be used as 'end result'. What's been said on that website has been part of the great debate. Yes, some research has shown that we can distinguish a single tone with considered 'inaudible' harmonics from one that doesn't have them. However, I have not seen any research that suggests human hearing can do the same while analysing complex music signals. I like music and want it to be well recorded and reproduced in a nice manner and don't really care how it was 'stored'. I suggest to not use our ears as analysers and simply enjoy music regardless in which 'form(at)' it comes. Vinyl, tape, MP3, FLAC, WAV or podcast or other low bandwidth medium, 384/32 as long as the listener is happy with it. Sometimes a high res album (recording/distribution) isn't as high res as one thinks it is. archimago.blogspot.nl/2013/07/list-suspected-44-or-48khz-pcm.html
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Post by Javier on Aug 10, 2013 22:56:55 GMT
Most manufacturers spec their DAC chips at 24/48 because distortion increases quickly after that sampling rate, the higher the sampling rate the worse the measured performance.
There is some real advantage in using 24bit (8bit padding for 16bit files) if one uses digital volume though, or even 32bit if source material is 24bit. In each case there will be 8bit attenuation available (48dB) without any loss of information.
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