AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - 16 bit vs 24 bit, 44.1khz vs 48 khz <-- please explain

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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

I knew somebody would bring this up... It was for purposes of
illustration from Justin. Depending on how loud playback is, the
frequencies of the sounds, how constant one or the other is, etc. will
determine whether it will be heard or not. That's not the point. The
value of the specific theoretical example nonwithstanding, the concept
is what was attempted to be illustrated.

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