[Arny Krueger]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message
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You've brought-up a good point. When recording digitally, you just don't
want to come too close to that MSB.

This is an audiophile myth, just as surely as the idea that having extensive
unused power reserves makes power amps sound better.

Craftsmanship suggests that you don't want to clip, but actual listening
reveals that a few short overages will escape even the most critical ear.

While a pro analog tape machine can go
over the 0 Vu mark occasionally with little or no consequences, you never
want to do so in digital.

That's primarily because the position of the 0 dB mark on analog tape
recorders is almost always a judgement call.

In some people's minds 0 dB was supposed to represent 1 % THD or 3% THD at
400 Hz or 1 KHz, but in reality things were never stable enough to make
those points stable, repeatible, or even necessarily audibly meaningful.

In contrast, digital FS is a stable, reliable, well-defined point. As a rule
its the same at every frequency in the audio band.