Henry66;596880 Wrote: > Interesting. Would it not have made more sense, when increasing the > number of bits, to stick to a dynamic range of 96dB and increase the > resolution of each bit? That would be about 4dB of dynamic range for 24 > bits, 3dB for 32 bits, etc. > > Why did they choose the current scheme? Backwards compatibility? Linear PCM doesn't work like that. Each bit represents a doubling of output voltage, which gives 6.02dB more level. Resolution and dynamic range are basically the same thing.
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