[linux-audio-user] Linux music editor, greater than 32-bit ?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

======= On Friday 23 February 2007, Hartmut Noack wrote: =======
> 
> > The thing is, real resolution of almost all
> > DACs is not better rather 14-15 bits. Very rare and very expensive DACs
> > have real resolution about 20-21 bits.
> >
> 
> May it be :-) the switch from 16/44.1 to 24/96 is very well audible
> anyway :-). I guess, for the realworld-usage of this card signal/noise
> ratio is of greater importance then the question, if the DAC could
> compute even greater resolution then the one I hear.
> 

Well, I didn't say about 96KHz at all :-) What about difference between
16/44 and 24/44? As for me, I'm not sure, I'll detect difference at blind
testing. Probably, my ears aren't golden ;-)

At any case, IMHO the main problem is DACs realization rather format
limitation.


Andrew