Okay, I'll quit this discussion. It's quite pointless anyways - there's not very much you can do to improve the reconstruction of your soundcard, at least nothing that would be as good as buying a better sound card.
Also if you fail to notice that the current year is 2015, and the rules you learned 20 years ago for 8-bit and 16-bit converters do not necessarily apply for today's typical 24-bit converters (that usually have several bits of noise in the lowest bits), then there's not much point in the discussion, because you're speaking about imaginary converters, and I'm speaking about real-world converters, so we will never agree. Good luck discussing this topic further. -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp