adamdea wrote: > WE still keep ploughing with this (slight) fallacy. It is not enough to > say that the level of quantisation noise (shut up Arnie) is equal to > that of the recording in order to capture it. It surely has to be > necessary that the additional noise from quantisation will not > perceptibly increase the total noise. Adding the same power of noise > again =3dB increase which I think should be noticeable > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335553 > > I would have thought you'd want an extra bit to be on the safe side.
Agreed. I was trying to keep the discussion as simple as possible. An extra bit would add 6 dB to the dynamic range. It would seem foolish (to me) to push it to the last dB. Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105717 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
