Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux music editor, greater than 32-bit ?

From: Andrew Gaydenko <a@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Feb 23 2007 - 11:08:56 EET

======= On Friday 23 February 2007, Hartmut Noack wrote: =======
>
> > The thing is, real resolution of almost all
> > DACs is not better rather 14-15 bits. Very rare and very expensive DACs
> > have real resolution about 20-21 bits.
> >
>
> May it be :-) the switch from 16/44.1 to 24/96 is very well audible
> anyway :-). I guess, for the realworld-usage of this card signal/noise
> ratio is of greater importance then the question, if the DAC could
> compute even greater resolution then the one I hear.
>

Well, I didn't say about 96KHz at all :-) What about difference between
16/44 and 24/44? As for me, I'm not sure, I'll detect difference at blind
testing. Probably, my ears aren't golden ;-)

At any case, IMHO the main problem is DACs realization rather format
limitation.

Andrew
Received on Fri Feb 23 12:15:03 2007

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