> The "persistent myth" is that signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range are somehow identical. They aren't. Obviously :) The SNR will stay at around ~96 dB fo

> The "persistent myth" is that signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range are somehow identical. They aren't. Obviously :) The SNR will stay at around ~96 dB for 16 bit audio. If that noise were white, then that would naturally limit the dynamic range to essentially the same number. But no one said that the quantization noise of the channel has to be white, indeed, the whole point of dithering and noise shaping is to de-correlate the quantization error from the signal and make the noise spectrum anything but white. Hence the dynamic range can be increased. > It's not a "persistent myth" - it's absolutely correct. No. The SNR is 96 dB; the dynamic range for the relevant frequency band is greater.