gez
pfm Member
An explanation (and proof) as to how digital bit depth has no impact on the quality of the audio, except to impact the level of the noise floor.
As someone who used to be a fervent believer that more bits meant more "detail" and "resolution" in digital audio, this demonstration was a big eye opener, especially where he inverts one of the sources and plays both at the same time, and is left with just noise. NB: if there was any diffference in the musical signal between the two sources you would hear some kind of music related sound (heavily distorted or frequency limited in some way), the fact that the result is pure noise proves that the musical signal in both sources is identical.
As someone who used to be a fervent believer that more bits meant more "detail" and "resolution" in digital audio, this demonstration was a big eye opener, especially where he inverts one of the sources and plays both at the same time, and is left with just noise. NB: if there was any diffference in the musical signal between the two sources you would hear some kind of music related sound (heavily distorted or frequency limited in some way), the fact that the result is pure noise proves that the musical signal in both sources is identical.