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I scored 10/10 in the test, but only because I experimented with this myself after I read Christopher Montgomery's article in 2012: As explained there, with act
by aurelian15 11y ago
I scored 10/10 in the test, but only because I experimented with this myself after I read Christopher Montgomery's article in 2012: As explained there, with active dithering, bit-depth and signal-to-noise level are interchangeable -- a signal with a small bit depth has a small signal-to-noise ratio. So one can clearly hear a subtle noise in the 8-bit samples, especially in the fade-out at the end.
In my experiments I found that for almost anything, that is not orchestral music, and that is newer than 1990, 8-bit sample depth are enough. That was really depressing.
By the way, a nice jest is to tell some random bystander that you're going to present them "8-bit" music and then play the 8-bit version of a song that was a victim of the loudness war. Supposedly, the 8-bit times were better than most people think. ;-)