5 ms·
ah, thank you! yes. every bit adds about 6db of headroom right?
by fb03 7y ago
ah, thank you! yes. every bit adds about 6db of headroom right?
- ars 7y agoYes, that's correct. Wikipedia claims that more than 21 bits is pointless for actual playback since there are no circuits that can be that accurate (quiet). But more bit depth can help with mixing headroom - but you don't need a lot. "24 bits is enough for anyone." © :)
- guggle 7y agoYes, for playback. For some people there's a lot of confusion about bit depth since it can represent a range of integers (like how the data is stored in a wav file or what dacs process) or a range of floats. Internally, audio apps typically represent signals as sequences of 32bit floats between -1 and +1.