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16 bits give you 96 dB SNR only if your signal is one-bit. In a quiet room with decent headphones set to comfortable level I can easily hear one-bit flips in ot
by pps43 8y ago
16 bits give you 96 dB SNR only if your signal is one-bit. In a quiet room with decent headphones set to comfortable level I can easily hear one-bit flips in otherwise silent WAV file.
Not a problem for popular music that's consistently loud, but a real problem for classical music with wide dynamic range.
- mrob 8y agoI tried it and I couldn't hear it. Are you sure you got the endianness right and it was really a least significant bit?
- pps43 8y agoYes, pretty sure. Had to zoom in a lot in audio editor to even see it. Could hear it nevertheless. It's important for the room to be quiet, as the sound is very faint and easily masked, but it's there. It's possible that Bluetooth headphones could lose it because of compression, or cheap DAC in the sound card simply ignores least-significant bits.