Phil Leigh;262925 Wrote: > The noise floor of a recording is going to be determined ultimately by > the microphones used to make it - and most typical professional studio > mics struggle to attain a s/n ratio of 80dB...
In the recent comparison between 44.1/16 and SACD, the researchers found that for almost all SACDs the noise floor was higher than -96dB, which made distinguishing between the two standards impossible even by cranking the volume during quiet passages. They did find a few (or maybe only one?) SACDs with noise floor below -96dB, and for those the difference could be made audible that way (and only that way). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42698 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
