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Default 16 bit vs 24 bit, 44.1khz vs 48 khz <-- please explain

Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
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|While it's true that the additional bits tack your extended resolution
|onto "the bottom" of the dynamic range, it clearly increases the
|resolution at all levels. You can have a -100dB component to a -1dB
|signal, and you still want to hear it.

Is the ear even capable of hearing the -100 component against the much
louder -1? I thought masking pervented this.

Phil