Pat Farrell;262753 Wrote: > jt25741 wrote: > > But if you have or plan to have true 24 bit recordings, you may not > > want to digitally attenuate and start truncating real data bits to > > preserve fidelity at all listening levels. > > This is impossible. > As soon as you attenuate the signal, you lose low order bits. About one > > bit per 6dB. > > Even if you had 24 bits of signal (which is unlikely) when you turn it > > down by 12dB, you have no more than 22 bits of information. You can use > > a digital attenuator, or a voltage divider or goat cheese, the > information is lost.
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