Carey Carlan writes:

The other bits provide 256 more possible levels between each of the
16- bits' levels.


Garthrr wrote:

I guess what I'm trying to find out is whether others do not agree with what
Carey said--whether this is in contention or not.

I haven't heard anybody disagree. I don't think anybody will.

From something I just read I'm beginning to think that dither is somehow
responsible for negating the advantage of that extra resolution at least in
higher level signals.

It uses the statistical average of the dither noise to bring the "extra
resolution" up into the range of the smaller sample size. This is
really a whole new can of worms though. It complicates the "bits"
question, which really does make sense even before you start talking
about dither.



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